on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:50:34AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:18:05PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 01:50:26 +0100 > > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a script that looks at the sigs in incoming mail as it's > > > delivered, and automatically pulls from a keyserver any that I don't > > > have. Very convenient. > > > > Why when two entries in your .gnupg/gpg.conf file will do it just fine? > > > > keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu > > keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve > > I can see why Pigeon's approach might be preferable. I found > auto-key-retrieve annoying and turned it off because it slowed things > down *while I was reading mail*, which I want to be fast. Doing that > task as mail is retrieved is something I hadn't thought of and would be > far smoother for me.
Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is front-loaded, and gets better. You can always abort the fetch with ^C. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux partitioning: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
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