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Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:

> At 2003-04-17T01:43:59Z, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
>> Is there any way to tell PGG that, when GPG fails to verify a
>> signature because it doesn't have the relevant public key in its
>> keyring, it should automatically download the key from the keyservers
>> and try again?  (gpg --recv-keys <keyID> does the download.)
>
> Edit your ~/.gnupg/options.  Add:
>
>    keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

Thanks!  It didn't even occur to me to check for this feature in GPG.
I feel silly now.

zw