GPG-MAILKEYS(1)

💌 GPG-MAILKEYS(1) — the general commands manual, section 1, bestie edition

okay so. this is gpg-mailkeys, from the General Commands Manual. sit down, grab a boba, we're sending keys to people. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

gpg-mailkeys — sends emails containing keys to their owners 🦋

like. literally what it says. it emails people their own keys. so thoughtful.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gpg-mailkeys id...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give it one or more ids and it goes off. 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

gpg-mailkeys sends the owners of the keys listed on the command line a mail each, containing their public key. no cap.

so here's the lore: after signing, you can use this tool to send everyone the new signatures they just got. you signed a bunch of keys, and now instead of manually mailing every single person like some kind of medieval scribe, you just run this. it's giving efficiency. it's giving main character energy. 🫶

okay but fr fr, if you're interested in encrypting the signature before it's sent, in order to verify that the associated address actually belongs to the key owner, you should check out caff. that's a whole different girl. 💀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

None

yeah. zero. no flags. not a single one. the options are ✨ nothing ✨ and honestly? iconic. it just works. 🙈

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

she reads her settings from the environment, and there's a LOT of them. let's go one by one, bestie:

• NAME — Set the name to use when sending messages 💜
• EMAIL — Set the email address to use when sending messages 🍓
• SUBJECT — Set the subject of the messages you send ✨
• TEXT — Set the body text of the messages 🎀
• SENDMAIL — Set the path to sendmail. Default: /usr/sbin/sendmail 💌
• SENDMAIL_ARGS — Set arguments to pass to $SENDMAIL. This can be useful to set credentials in order to authenticate to an smtp server when using ssmtp for example. lowkey a lifesaver for that auth setup 🔥
• HOME — Set the default home directory. 🏠
• GNUPGBIN — Set the gpg binary. Default: "gpg". 👑
• GNUPGHOME — Set the default working directory for gpg. Default: "~/.gnupg". 🧚

🦋 FILES 🦋

The behavior of gpg-mailkeys can be updated through some files available in the user home directory. so you can customize your whole setup, no big deal. 💖

• ~/.gpg-mailkeysrc — allows the user to overwrite the default value for the above environment variables. it's giving personalization ✨
• ~/.signature — any text in here will be appended to the end of the body text of the message. cute lil sign-off, love that for you 🎀

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

gpg(1), caff(1)

go read those too, they're part of the family. 🌸

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

This manual page was written by Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>. thank you for your service, legend 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💅 this was the gpg-mailkeys(1) man page from the General Commands Manual, dated Nov 23, 2010 — you absolutely ate that read, go send some keys 💌✨