always encrypting messages to self [was: Re: new "crypto" branch providing full PGP/MIME support]

Subject: always encrypting messages to self [was: Re: new "crypto" branch providing full PGP/MIME support]

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:03:02 -0500

To: notmuch

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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor


On 02/03/2011 03:34 PM, Jameson Rollins wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:52:01 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>> You either want to fix this in your emacs config by putting your
>> fingerprint into mml2015-signers and setting mml2015-encrypt-to-self
>>
>> Or you want to set gpg's default-recipient-self option  (and
>> default-recipient option if you hold more than one secret key and want
>> to be sure it chooses the right one)
> 
> Actually, I think the gpg option we're looking for here is
> "encrypt-to".  "default-recipient-self" sets the recipient only if none
> other is specified.  I just set "encrypt-to <mykeyid>" in my gpg.conf
> and it seems to do as expected (all encrypted messages are also
> encrypted to myself).

Yes, this is correct.  thanks for figuring that out, Jamie.

	--dkg

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