* gpg-mailkeys: Mentionned both the .gpg-mailkeysrc and .signature files in
[pgp-tools.git] / gpg-mailkeys / gpg-mailkeys.1
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2 .TH GPG-MAILKEYS 1 "September 11, 2009"
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
35 .SH FILES
36 The behavior of
37 .B gpg-mailkeys
38 can be updated through some files available in the user home directory.
39
40 Thus,
41 .B .gpg-mailkeysrc
42 allows the user to overwrite the default value for the above environment
43 variables, and any text in
44 .B .signature
45 will be appended to the end of the body text of the message.
46
47 .SH SEE ALSO
48 .BR gpg (1), caff (1)
49 .SH AUTHOR
50 This manual page was written by Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>.