Re: [Enigmail] Getting GPG keys from persons

Stephen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 10.05.19 um 12:01 schrieb Olav Seyfarth:
> Hi Jean-Philippe,
> 
> OpenPGP keys are not handled by Enigmail but by GnuPG, on all platforms.
> So, refreshing the receipient's keys from a file or from a keyserver using
> command line is sufficient. In certain cases it MAY be necessary to refresh
> the key cache in Enigmail. To be sure, I recommend to close Thunderbird,
> refresh keys via CLI and restart Thunderbird. Then, all should be shiny.

As a general comment:

This will only work if the expired keys are actually stored on the
configured keyservers.

Failing that, one would have to get the new public key directly from the
intended recipient, with all that entails. (This is the challenge I am
currently confronted with...)

-Stephen

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