Testing if all works

[Friedhelm Waitzmann]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:15:51AM +0530, Amish K. Munshi wrote:

>How do I check weather the entire encryption and decryption
>is working properly, and if the receipent of my mail has pgp
>or gnupg installed, then he is able to check that the mail
>is authentic.

What about of creating a second GnuPG home using the environment
variable GNUPGHOME or the option --homedir directory? Then you
can import your public keys from the keyserver into this second
GnuPG home like any receipient of your mail would do.

Or have I missed the point?