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From: "jindam, vani" <jindam.vani@disroot.org>
To: "Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
Cc: Info-gnus English <info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: recipient does not have pgp key? can i still send an encrypted email?
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 04:24:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <641f1e6f52cfd0081ba0d126d387a01d@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leng18kc.fsf@thaodan.de>

On 2022-12-09 23:06, Björn Bidar wrote:
> "jindam, vani" <jindam.vani@disroot.org> writes:
> 
>> if yes, how? i have created gpg.conf & added
>> auto-key-locate local,keyserver,wkd.
> 
> You can't unless you use symmetric encryption (see the earlier answer
> you got).
> 
> However if the Gnupg finds the key of the recipient through the
> ~auto-key-locate~ option you might be to find the key.
> Another method would be to ask the mail provider for the public-key of
> the recipient if autocrypt[1] is used.

ok. another issue resolved. since few months
k9 mail(1) is using this method.

> Gnus doesn't support it out of
> the box however there's a third party plugin[2] that does add such 
> support.
> I haven't tested that myself.
> 
> 
> Br,
> 
> Björn
> 
> -
> [1] https://autocrypt.org/
> [2] https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/autocrypt

(1) https://github.com/thundernest/k-9

regards,
jindam, vani

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-10  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09 17:56 jindam, vani
2022-12-09 18:25 ` Adam Sjøgren
2022-12-09 23:06 ` Björn Bidar
2022-12-10  4:24   ` jindam, vani [this message]

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