Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> So someone just emailed me their public PGP key. I can save the MIME
> attachment to a file, then call "gpg --import thekey.key", but the
> resulting key isn't associated with their email address, and therefore
> I'm not able to send them encrypted emails, at least not by default.
>
> Does anyone have a clever function for importing an attached key and
> automatically associating it with the email address which sent it? Or
> somehow doing it after the fact? I've been googling for a while now, and
> haven't found the answer...

There are three separate issues lurking here:

  1) getting the key to gpg --import
  2) how to record an email address -> pubkey mapping
  3) how to do (2) automatically

1 and 3 are certainly useful code to share, but don't seem super tricky.
I am curious what people are doing for 2.  bbdb?

Also, are you using epg?  It seems that is the preferred way (over pgg)
these days, and it's what I use.