Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:00:07PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > >For testing my new Nitrokey I have just install Enigmail for > >Thunderbird on a fresh Ubuntu system and when clicking on > >a signed message from a friend, which has properly set-up > >WKD Thunderbird/Enigmail can not fetch the pub key. :-( > > Unless I missed something, I believe Enigmail will only attempt to > automatically fetch a key from a Web Key Directory when *composing* a > message (if there’s no key for the recipient in the local keyring), and > *not* when checking a signature on a received message. > > See that excerpt from Enigmail 2.0 changelog [1]: > > > Support for Web Key Directory (WKD) is implemented. Enigmail will try > > to download unavailable keys during message composition from WKD.
Ah, ok, thanks. I thought it will fetch also automatically when checking signatures. > You can force GnuPG to try to fetch a missing key when verifying a > signature by enabling the --auto-key-retrieve option (please read the > note about the “web bug” in gpg’s man page before doing so—that option > is disabled by default for a reason.) I enabled it now and it works. :-) Regards Stefan -- my 'hidden' service gopherhole: gopher://iria2xobffovwr6h.onion _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
