[Enigmail] Quickly downloading keys from message body?

[John Clizbe]

Tyler Spivey wrote:
> Hello. From what I understand, when Enigmail says that I need to click
> on the pen icon that's supposed to be there, it will automatically
> search for (and possibly download) the key of the person in the From:
> field. My screen reader can't find the icon, and I've looked in the
> menus without finding the option that the icon sounds like (from google
> searches) that it should perform. The closest that I've gotten is to
> copy the From: address, open the key manager, and search for it there.
> Is there an easier way to do this that I'm missing?

Include lines like these in gpg.conf

keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve include-subkeys include-revoked

The two include-* keyserver options aren't required, just helpful.
With these two lines, GnuPG will attempt to automatically retrieve any key it
needs to verify a signature. Enigmail will only bother you if the auto-retrieve
fails to locate the required key.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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