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[Discuss] mailvelope does not automatically download keys



Only working with known keys - that user has reviewed network of trust for
- is probably a valid high paranoia practice.
One might expect that to be adjustable.
OTOH prevent ng unsafe settings is a valid choidpce also.

Alas usable adequate security is probably fictitious.

On Oct 1, 2017 1:08 PM, "Jerry Feldman" <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am setting up mailvelope on my laptop. For some reason, when I try to
> encrypt mail to a recipient that I know has a valid key in a public key
> server, it fails to download the key even though I have "Automatically
> lookup recipient keys." checked. I have tried several different key
> servers. I currently use pgp.mit.edu.
>
> with one recipient, I manually imported his key from a file, and that
> worked.
>
> --
> --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
> Boston Linux and Unix
> PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7
> Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1  3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7
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