[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#454743: not a bug

[David Shaw]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> Am 2008-07-28 11:39:00, schrieb David Shaw:
>> Agreed that it isn't GPG's job to rewrite addresses, but that said,
>> GPG does actually have the feature that was requested:
>>
>>  keyserver mailto:pgp-public-keys at keys.nl.pgp.net?from=my-addr at example.com
>>
>> I.e. add '?from=address' to the end of the keyserver line.
>>
>> David
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> Thanks for this info, but look again in the Message from me.
>
> "gpg" has used the GECOS field as "From:" instead of LOGIN. I  am   
> using

I don't quite understand how.  The code in gpgkeys_mailto that gets  
the login string is:

   ($login,$name)=(getpwuid($<))[0,6];

And the From line is generated as:

   $from="$name <$login>";

You might try editing the gpgkeys_mailto script to print out (to  
stderr) those variables as they are found.  It may help shed some  
light on what is happening in your case.

David