Getting KMail to let me encrypt to an unsigned key?

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-05-15, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:

>> (Two apologies: this is slightly off-topic, and I've also posted the
>> same question to the debian-user list.)
>
> You should have tried kdepim-users at kde.org. :-)

I'll try that next, thanks!


>> I'm running the Debian kmail 3.3.2-3 package and gpg 1.4.3 compiled
>> from the source.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, it flatly refuses to let me encrypt a message
>> to any key that doesn't have a signature chain back to a trusted key.
>>  I can see the usefulness of a warning about doing this, but I've
>> accidentally sent a message unencrypted while trying to find a way
>> around the problem.
>>
>> Is there any way to override this restriction?
>
> No, but there's a corresponding (and already very old) wish in KDE's bug=20
> tracking system (bugs.kde.org).

Would lsign-ing the key circumvent the problem?  Would it cause any
other problems?