ca-sendout - send GPG challenges for email verification
ca-sendout
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.
ca-sendout tries to conform to the RFCs which are relevant to email messages in general and encrypted emails in particular, namely:
ca-bot(7)
$Id: ca-sendout 131 2004-03-26 15:10:27Z weasel $
ca-sendout et al are Copyright (c) 1998 Ian Jackson, (c) 2001, 2003 Peter Palfrader
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Privacy Guard; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Ian Jackson and Peter Palfrader