[Enigmail] Multiple email addresses
Crystal Brewton
crystal.a.brewton at gmail.com
Thu Jul 23 11:19:31 PDT 2009
Good point and thank you for the info *smiles*
Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Crystal Brewton wrote:
> > How did you manage that, if I may ask? I have OpenPGP as well as
> > PorablePGP and would like to do this with a key, using two email addys.
> > Also is it required to use a valid email address?
>
> It's trivial to add email addresses to a key. It's a standard key
> management function.
> With Enigmail, OpenPGP -> Key Management -> select key -> right-click ->
> Manage User IDs -> Add.
> From the command line with GnuPG, gpg --edit-keys <keyid> -> adduid.
>
> There's nothing to stop you from adding an invalid email address to a
> key if you really want to, but I fail to see what benefit there would be
> to doing so, since if the address is invalid you can't send mail from it
> and the additional uid will never get used. It would be a little like
> adding an extra door onto your house that opens onto a blank wall.
>
>
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