encrypting to different email address
This post is about GPGMail and not Enigmail.
I've seen many posts that to encrypt an email to a recipient at an email address that email address must be a uid within that recipient's public key. But suppose a person changes their email address without updating their key. Enigmail, for example, allows me to encrypt mail to that person by choosing the public key from a list.
This makes a lot of sense since people can have many email addresses and not all of them in their key. This would be kind of analogous to just giving a file encrypted to a person on a flash drive. He can still decrypt it without having received it at one of the addresses in his key.
Can this be done with GPGMail? This is a bit of a stumbling block for me since many of my contacts have changed email address without updating their keys. And I can't just slap them around to update their keys since some of them could slap back very hard. :-)
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 09 Dec, 2011 12:12 AM
That is in fact an issue that we will address in one of
the next releases.
We'll have to think of a very intuitive way because we really
focus on simplicity with GPGMail 2.0.
2 Posted by gpgtools on 09 Dec, 2011 12:16 AM
Thanks Luke. I look forward to it.
Thanks for all your efforts.
3 Posted by branto on 13 Dec, 2011 06:53 PM
Agreed. I have keys with only emails listed under the name field in the uid, and can't send via gpgmail
4 Posted by Alex on 14 Dec, 2011 03:35 PM
See http://gpgtools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/65764/tickets/391 fur future updates on this topic.
Alex closed this discussion on 14 Dec, 2011 03:35 PM.