[Enigmail] Using more than one mail address with Enigmail????

[LeRoy Cressy]

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Bo Berglund wrote:
> (Sorry, sent this previously from an account not registered with
> enigmail list so it was not pulished. Just goes to show what happens
> when you have different mail accounts...)
> 
> I have several different email addresses (some of which are different
> spellings only but go to the same account and some are different
> accounts). I would like to use Enigmail encryption for all of these. But
> since the GPG keys seem to be locked to an email address I am wondering
> how to approach this problem?
> 
> Do I have to create a different key pair for each email address?
> Does this mean that I also have to memorize a whole set of different
> pass phrases to use when decrypting the messages?
> In such case it seems very awkward to use GPG/Enigmail.
> 
> Ideally I would like to use one single key pair for all my mail addresses.
> 
> Advice really appreciated.
> 
> 
> /Bo

There have been a number of responses utilizing Thunderbird's OpenPGP
menu Key Management script.  If you have a large number of keys the
script seems to fail at loading keys.

In that case, open a terminal window and utilize gnupg edit-key

gpg --edit-key leroy at lrcressy.com
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.6; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Secret key is available.

pub  1024D/8501AFEA  created: 2003-01-03  expires: never       usage: SCA
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
sub  2048g/B16A47D6  created: 2003-01-03  expires: never       usage: E
sub  2048g/FBF1253E  created: 2004-02-08  expired: 2006-02-07  usage: E
sub  4096R/86B08B2A  created: 2005-08-07  expires: 2008-11-08  usage: S
sub  4096R/F4988EE7  created: 2005-08-13  expires: 2008-08-12  usage: E
[ultimate] (1). LeRoy D. Cressy (ldc) <ldc at lrcressy.com>
[ultimate] (2)  LeRoy D. Cressy (ldc) <leroy at lrcressy.com>

Command> adduid
follow the directions
After you get done with adding your new uid's at the command prompt

Command> list
This shows all of your UID's

Command> save

Send your edited key to a keyserver
gpg --send-key 0x8501AFEA


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gpg fingerprint:  62DE 6CAB CEE1 B1B3 359A  81D8 3FEF E6DA 8501 AFEA

For info on enigmail:    http://lrcressy.com/linux/mozilla.pdf
For info on gpg:         http://www.gnupg.org/

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
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