How to use a Key without email address in it?
Hey,
I am using it to encrypt my mails.
Now I have a user, who has no email in his key.
How can I use this key now to encrypt the mail?
Thank you!
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Steve on 29 Jun, 2012 11:54 AM
Hey Simon,
not sure I completely understand your use case, but it sounds like you simply want to write an encrypted mail to a friend. If that friend has a key but no mail address associated, there is no way at all, to send him an encrypted mail.
He'd have to associate at least one mail address for mail encryption to work. Then upload his edited key to the key servers.
Does this answer your question?
All the best,
steve
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2 Posted by tais46 on 29 Jun, 2012 11:57 AM
Hey Steve,
yes you answer my question!
Thank you
Simon
Support Staff 3 Posted by Luke Le on 29 Jun, 2012 11:58 AM
Hi Simon,
Steve is right, this was not possible with GPGMail until just recently.
There is a way now though, which was just added to the nightly build.
Please install the GPGMail nightly from http://nightly.gpgtools.org.
After that open Terminal.app and type the following. Press enter when done:
defaults write org.gpgtools.common PublicKeyUserMap -dict-add email fingerprint
Replace email with your friend's email which is not included in the public key and the fingerprint with your friend's key's fingerprint.
Hope that helps
Support Staff 4 Posted by Steve on 22 Jul, 2012 04:51 PM
No further user feedback. Closing.
@Simon: Should your problem persist, feel free to re-open this discussion any time. I hope Luke's explanation was helpful in solving this problem.
All the best,
steve
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Steve closed this discussion on 22 Jul, 2012 04:51 PM.