Evolution and Seahorse playing together

[Markus Lindholm]

On 15/03/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:30 +0100, Markus Lindholm wrote:
> >> I have an up to date FC6 system where I've setup evolution and
> >> seahorse so that I can sign and encrypt my letters and it works
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> Now I've run across a case where I need to encrypt a letter with a
> >> key that don't match the e-mail address in the To: field. I can't
> >> find a way to manually override the assumptions that evolution
> >> makes about which keys to use nor have I found a way to add an
> >> additional e-mail address to the key in seahorse.
> >
> > One option to try - write the message to an address that is
> > associated with that key, add the other address as a second address
> > to post to.
> >
> > But, I'd say the best option is to get the person you're posting to,
> > to add their other addresses to their key, then re-import their key.
>
> Another possible work-around might be adding an alias for the key in
> the gpg config (~/.gnupg/gpg.conf).  You can do this using the group
> option.  There's an example in the config file and some documentation
> in the man/info page.  Something like this is what I'm thinking:
>
> group address_NOT_on_key at example.com = address_on_key at example.com
>
> It may also be worth asking on any seahorse list or filing an RFC to
> allow you to modify the list of keys used.
>

Thanks, the group definition solved my case.

Isn't it more of an Evolution issue? Shouldn't it give more control to
the user? I mean even if it finds a perfect match it would be nice if
it would show a dialog after pressing the send button saying something
like 'You're about to send this letter signed with this key and
encrypted with this key. Would you like to add/remove some keys?'

/markus