[mew-int 01458] Re: Must sign a key to encrypt a mail?

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud.vandyck at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01451] Must sign a key to encrypt a mail?

> Mew want  me to sign an  OpenPGP key to  send an encrypted mail  to this
> person. MailCrypt  does not need this.  Is there a variable  in Mew that
> makes it possible to encrypt mail to person I did not sign the key? 

This is NOT a Mew's requirement. This IS a GnuPG's requirement. 

I don't know why MailCrypt can drive GnuPG with non-signed
keys. (Perhaps, the message created by MailCrypt is not encrypted to
the key's owner... but encrypted to yourself...)

You can use "pgpdump" to see if the cipher is correctly created:

	http://pgp.iijlab.net/pgpdump.html

--Kazu