group in gpg.conf but gpgmail does not honor/see

[Sean Rima]

On 13 Nov 2011, at 21:31, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 11/13/2011 09:29, MFPA wrote:
>> There was a brief discussion about group lines on PGPNET a few months
>> ago. IIRC, the specifics under discussion were spaces and angle
>> brackets.
>> 
>> I don't think any conclusions were reached, but it may be worth
>> experimenting with
>> 
>> group <pgpnet at yahoogroups.com>=0x
>> group <pgpnet at yahoogroups.com> =0x
>> group <pgpnet at yahoogroups.com> = 0x
>> group pgpnet at yahoogroups.com=0x
>> group pgpnet at yahoogroups.com =0x
>> group pgpnet at yahoogroups.com = 0x
> 
> Sean, take MFPA's advice and try different combinations of spaces and
> angle brackets as above. I would be very surprised if gpgmail scanned
> the gpg.conf or the key files directly. It's far more likely that it's
> asking gpg to encrypt to an e-mail address that looks like $this.
> Figuring out what the "$this" is should allow you to use the group line
> transparently.
> 

I will have  aplay later on, but I am nearly sure that it is reading the key file. I created a dummy key for the group and gpgmail gave me the option to encrypt but with out the key no option to encrypt is available, only sign

sean