[Fwd: Re: HKP and firewalls]

[Neil Williams]

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On Monday 07 Apr 2003 6:04 pm, udo 'mju' fleckenstein wrote:
> "7. Enigmail fails to access keyserver from behind a firewall?
> If you are using HTTP proxy behind a firewall, you need to use GPG with
> the "keyserver-options honor-http-proxy". It is essential to set not
> only the environment variable "http_proxy" to point to the proxy server
> but to also set the environment variable "ENIGMAIL_PASS_ENV=http_proxy"
> before starting Mozilla and using Enigmail. This ensures that Enigmail
> will pass the environment variable to GPG."
> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/troubles.html

To solve my original query, I've just changed
keyserver x-hkp://keyserver.linux.it
to
keyserver x-broken-hkp://keyserver.linux.it

and now auto-key-retrieve works fine and all keys (on public keyservers) can 
be retrieved.

May work for others.

> to the enigmail-folks: Why using another environment variable? If
> http_proxy is set, simply pass it - or do i miss some point?

More of Mozilla being just plain greedy for resources?

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Neil Williams
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