NAME¶
gpg-mailkeys - sends emails containing keys to their owners
SYNOPSIS¶
gpg-mailkeys id
...
DESCRIPTION¶
gpg-mailkeys sends the owners of the keys listed on the command line a
mail each, containing their public key. After signing, you can use this tool
to send everyone the new signatures they just got.
If you're interested in encrypting the signature before it's sent, in order to
verify that the associated address actually belongs to the key owner, you
should check out
caff
OPTIONS¶
None
ENVIRONMENT¶
- NAME
- Set the name to use when sending messages
- EMAIL
- Set the email address to use when sending messages
- SUBJECT
- Set the subject of the messages you send
- TEXT
- Set the body text of the messages
- SENDMAIL_ARGS
- Set arguments to pass to /usr/sbin/sendmail. This can be
useful to set credentials in order to authenticate to an smtp server when
using ssmtp for example.
FILES¶
The behavior of
gpg-mailkeys can be updated through some files available
in the user home directory.
Thus,
~/.gpg-mailkeysrc allows the user to overwrite the default value
for the above environment variables, and any text in
~/.signature will
be appended to the end of the body text of the message.
SEE ALSO¶
gpg(1),
caff(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>.