[Users] PGP standard-key

Paul claws at thewildbeast.co.uk
Fri Aug 12 09:47:41 CEST 2016


On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:33:38 +0200
Andreas Meyer <anmeyer at mailbox.org> wrote: 

> That's not clear to me. The standard-account is anmeyer at mailbox.org.
> If I mail from another account for example a.meyer at nimmini.de and
> the default setting like "use default GnuPG-key" is set, the key
> of anmeyer at mailbox.org is used for signing a mail.

Probably you want the 2nd option then. But it may be better to
specify the key ID.

> Is this key of anmeyer at mailbox.org prefinded somerwhere or is it
> taken form the standard-account automatically when no key is
> specified in the settings of a.meyer at nimmini.de

This is defined in your GnuPG preferences. ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

If you don't have a default key defined there, it probably just picks
the first one it finds.

with regards

Paul



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