Re: pgg doesn't seem to like me

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

jam@jamux.com (John A. Martin) writes:

> When I say "y" it fails because my system is not set up to allow any
> random process to willy-nilly access any random outside entity.

Maybe you can frob `pgg-default-keyserver-address'.  But I don't think
the keyserver stuff in PGG should be used if GnuPG is used, the GnuPG
keyserver support is better and more likely to be set up correctly.

I added a variable `pgg-query-keyserver' that toggles whether PGG
fetches keys.  It defaults to nil.  Presumably, only non-GnuPG users
would want to toggle this.

> Gpg has had workable key fetching for a long time.  Key fetching was
> substantially improved in gnupg-1.0.7 and much improved again in
> gnupg-2.0.0.  Gnupg is committed to coordinating key fetch with the
> improvements under way with many public key servers.  IIRC more key
> fetching improvements are slated for gnupg-2.0.1.  This is to suggest
> that users would be better served were gnus to let default key
> fetching be left to the user's gpg and optioned by ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf.

One argument for PGG to fetch keys is that GnuPG's key fetching is
disabled by default, and a mail reader without key fetching is pretty
useless.  Perhaps GnuPG should not be changed, but most common GnuPG
distributions like Debian packages and RedHat packages should enable
some keyserver by default, I think.