Re: recipient does not have pgp key? can i still send an encrypted email?

[jindam, vani]

On 2022-12-09 23:06, Björn Bidar wrote:
> "jindam, vani" <jindam.vani@disroot.org> writes:
>
> > if yes, how? i have created gpg.conf & added
> > auto-key-locate local,keyserver,wkd.
>
> You can't unless you use symmetric encryption (see the earlier answer
> you got).
>
> However if the Gnupg finds the key of the recipient through the
> ~auto-key-locate~ option you might be to find the key.
> Another method would be to ask the mail provider for the public-key of
> the recipient if autocrypt[1] is used.

ok. another issue resolved. since few months
k9 mail(1) is using this method.

> Gnus doesn't support it out of
> the box however there's a third party plugin[2] that does add such 
> support.
> I haven't tested that myself.
>
>
> Br,
>
> Björn
>
> -
> [1] https://autocrypt.org/
> [2] https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/autocrypt

(1) https://github.com/thundernest/k-9

regards,
jindam, vani

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