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author | Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com> | 2015-12-10 17:13:42 +0000 |
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committer | Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com> | 2015-12-10 17:13:42 +0000 |
commit | 3cac78c6bf45bf9f95e6750697c997d99513918c (patch) | |
tree | 9cffa77679a3e39675468c8178dcf4634260c7f2 | |
parent | c8c06043be944003aa3a932845c0c5d1d9a9f92c (diff) | |
parent | 4111ee7685c27ca7144a9e49fe18392c3d01d0a9 (diff) |
Merge pull request #804 from lucc/docs/gpg-to-self
Add comment about "encrypt-to-self" in docs.
-rw-r--r-- | docs/source/usage/crypto.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/source/usage/crypto.rst b/docs/source/usage/crypto.rst index 6cee7753..243cc445 100644 --- a/docs/source/usage/crypto.rst +++ b/docs/source/usage/crypto.rst @@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ and :ref:`toggleencrypt <cmd.envelope.toggleencrypt>` and in envelope mode to ask alot to encrypt the mail before sending. The :ref:`encrypt <cmd.envelope.encrypt>` command accepts an optional hint string as argument to determine the key of the recipient. + +If you want to access encrypt mail later it is useful to add yourself to the +list of recipients when encrypting with gpg (not the recipients whom mail is +actually send to). The simplest way to do this is to use the `encrypt-to` +option in the :file:`~/.gnupg/gpg.conf`. But you might have to specify the +correct encryption subkey otherwise gpg seems to throw an error. |