Re: Encrypting outgoing message but not Gcc?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> I was wondering why this option didn't work for me, and I found the code
>> below in yesterday's CVS.  Notice that it makes my user ID known to gpg
>> by means of the `--remote-user' option.  However, this option is no
>> longer used in recent versions of gpg ... it's been replaced with
>> `--recipient'.
>>
>> I think that we need a configuration variable that allows us to specify
>> one or the other of these option flags, so that the code can be made to
>> work with both older and newer versions of gpg.
>
> Here's a patch for this.  What do you folks think?  If it's suitable,
> feel free to apply it to CVS.

It looks good.  --remote-user was marked as obsolete, and not
documented even for GnuPG 1.0.0, the oldest GnuPG release I could find
on ftp.gnug.org, so the patch looks safe.  I have installed it.
Perhaps making it customizable wasn't needed, but probably doesn't
hurt.