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

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:06:42PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > What's happening is actually pretty normal. hostname -f or /etc/mailname
> > is picked up as the hostname value for the sender From: and probably
> > also for envelope From: and thus most receiving mailserver will reject
> > your mail because of the invalid sender domain part.
> >
> > What you really need to solve this is a MTA that can rewrite your invalid
> > e-mail address with something legit. I'm too lazy to read the courier docs
> > but I can tell you that this feature is called sender_canonical_maps in the
> > Postfix world and I remember that sendmail has something similar aswell.
> 
> Agreed with Sven here - it's not gnupg's business to do address rewriting.

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