Scripting GPG without retaining keys

[Werner Koch]

On Tue,  5 Apr 2016 16:59, jon at sprig.gs said:

> Is this a failure in my understanding of the gpg command line, or have
> I missed some fundamental part of the documentation somewhere?

  auto-key-retrieve

     This option enables the automatic retrieving of keys from a
     keyserver when _verifying_ signatures made by keys that are not on
     the local keyring.

     [...]

What you want is 

   --auto-key-locate local,keyserver



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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