Must I Retrieve?

[AARG! Anonymous]

Cameron Hooper [05/01/2003]:
> I use GnuPG in pine via pinegpg. So far everything works well, but I have
> one question. When reading a "signed" message I have to set the option
> 'keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve' in the options file. This retrieves
> the correspondent's public key and imports it into my keyring.
> 
> My question is: Can I check a signature without importing the public
> key? 

Tell GnuPG to use a different (secondary) keyring, which you might want
to clean up from time to time...