On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:28:44PM +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: > For programmatic use of GnuPG, you should really be using a library, > preferably GPGME. That is the supported way of using GnuPG from another > program. Calling the gpg command line program directly is for use by > humans on a command line.
As a human, this behavior is surprising and unintuitive. I use GPG outside of email clients more often than not. I typically use "--encrypt", "--decrypt" and any other flags I think are necessary, but it seems like I don't actually need to bother doing that. Regardless of how I ultimately choose to implement PGP support in my mail client, I would still like to have the questions I asked addressed to understand how GPG handles command line flags. Eric _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
