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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: epa and keys
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 15:48:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu6ebk95.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2h7wmft4i.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Mon, 11 May 2020 16:23:09 +0200")

Dear Robert
>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>> On Mon, 11 May 2020 10:54:53 +0100, Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> said:
    Colin> Hello, I want to sign an email (mail mode, not message mode)
    Colin> using M-x epa-mail-sign <RET>.

    Colin> I would have expected to have been presented with a list of
    Colin> keys from which to choose, but, instead, I am asked to enter
    Colin> my password for the first key in my key-ring. (The first key
    Colin> is effectively the default, if no default key is explicitly
    Colin> set). Unfortunately, I want to sign with another key in my
    Colin> key-ring.

    Colin> How can I force epa to present me with a choice of keys
    Colin> rather than the first? I am using gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.26.

    > C-u M-x epa-mail-sign

Universal argument, excellent. That worked!

    > should do that, which is not described in the docstring nor in the
    > manual.

Not telling anyone - now that's sneaky:-)

    > Iʼd recommend message-mode and mml-secure-sign-pgp

Yes, I normally use message mode, but, because of the way I have things
configured, sometimes I have to use mail.

Thanks again.

Best wishes, Colin.

-- 
Colin Baxter
URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-11 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-11  9:54 epa and keys Colin Baxter
2020-05-11 14:23 ` Robert Pluim
2020-05-11 14:48   ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2020-05-12  7:32     ` Robert Pluim

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