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2 .TH GPG-MAILKEYS 1 "Nov 23, 2010"
3 .SH NAME
4 .B gpg\-mailkeys
5 \- sends emails containing keys to their owners
6 .SH SYNOPSIS
7 .B gpg-mailkeys
8 .RI id ...
9 .SH DESCRIPTION
10 .B gpg-mailkeys
11 sends the owners of the keys listed on the command line a mail each,
12 containing their public key. After signing, you can use this tool to send
13 everyone the new signatures they just got.
14
15 If you're interested in encrypting the signature before it's sent, in order
16 to verify that the associated address actually belongs to the key owner,
17 you should check out
18 .B caff
19 .SH OPTIONS
20 None
21 .SH ENVIRONMENT
22 .TP 13
23 .I NAME
24 Set the name to use when sending messages
25 .TP 13
26 .I EMAIL
27 Set the email address to use when sending messages
28 .TP 13
29 .I SUBJECT
30 Set the subject of the messages you send
31 .TP 13
32 .I TEXT
33 Set the body text of the messages
34 .TP 13
35 .I SENDMAIL_ARGS
36 Set arguments to pass to /usr/sbin/sendmail. This can be useful to set
37 credentials in order to authenticate to an smtp server when using ssmtp
38 for example.
39
40 .SH FILES
41 The behavior of
42 .B gpg-mailkeys
43 can be updated through some files available in the user home directory.
44
45 Thus,
46 .B ~/.gpg-mailkeysrc
47 allows the user to overwrite the default value for the above environment
48 variables, and any text in
49 .B ~/.signature
50 will be appended to the end of the body text of the message.
51
52 .SH SEE ALSO
53 .BR gpg (1), caff (1)
54 .SH AUTHOR
55 This manual page was written by Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>.