NAME

ca-sendout - send GPG challenges for email verification


SYNOPSIS

ca-sendout


DESCRIPTION

ca-sendout sends an encrypted email containing a random cookie (generated using the /dev/urandom interface) to all email adresses found in the uid's of all public keys in sendoutdir. These emails are encrypted using the uid's public keys. Once the mails are sent, sendoutdir/keyid/ is moved to sentdir/keyid/, where files MAGIC and CHALLENGE are stored.

The text in the preamble config setting is prepended to the email body, and send in clear text. See the source of this script for other texts which will appear in the message. ( FIXME embed pod for easy doc maintaining, or, even better, make it configurable. )

ca-sendout is one of the ca-bot scripts, see ca-bot(7) for more information.


CONFORMING TO

ca-sendout tries to conform to the RFCs which are relevant to email messages in general and encrypted emails in particular, namely:

o RFC 2046, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types.
o RFC 3156, MIME Security with OpenPGP.


SEE ALSO

ca-bot(7)


VERSION

$Id: ca-sendout 160 2005-01-05 10:16:17Z lfousse $


AUTHORS

Ian Jackson and Peter Palfrader