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authorSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2019-09-06 07:03:56 -0700
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Merge tag 'debian/0.10-1' into buster-bpo
mailscripts release 0.10-1 for unstable (sid) [dgit] [dgit distro=debian no-split --quilt=linear] # gpg: Signature made Tue 30 Jul 2019 05:29:55 AM MST # gpg: using RSA key 9B917007AE030E36E4FC248B695B7AE4BF066240 # gpg: Good signature from "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>" [ultimate] # Primary key fingerprint: 8DC2 487E 51AB DD90 B5C4 753F 0F56 D055 3B6D 411B # Subkey fingerprint: 9B91 7007 AE03 0E36 E4FC 248B 695B 7AE4 BF06 6240
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+=head1 NAME
+
+email-extract-openpgp-certs - extract OpenPGP certificates from an e-mail
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+B<email-extract-openpgp-certs> <B<message.eml> | B<gpg> B<--import>
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+B<email-extract-openpgp-certs> extracts all the things it can find
+that look like they might be OpenPGP certificates in an e-mail, and
+produces them on standard output.
+
+It currently knows about how to find OpenPGP certificates as
+attachments of MIME type application/pgp-keys, and Autocrypt: style
+headers.
+
+=head1 OPTIONS
+
+None.
+
+=head1 EXAMPLE
+
+=over 4
+
+ $ notmuch show --format-raw id:b7e48905-842f@example.net >test.eml
+ $ email-extract-openpgp-certs <test.eml | gpg --import
+
+=back
+
+=head1 LIMITATIONS
+
+B<email-extract-openpgp-certs> currently does not try to decrypt
+encrypted e-mails, so it cannot find certificates that are inside the
+message's cryptographic envelope.
+
+B<email-extract-openpgp-certs> does not attempt to validate the
+certificates it finds in any way. It does not ensure that they are
+valid OpenPGP certificates, or even that they are of a sane size. It
+doeds not try to establish any relationship between the extracted
+certificates and the messages in which they are sent. For example, it
+does not check the Autocrypt addr= attribute against the message's From:
+header.
+
+Importing certificates extracted from an arbitrary e-mail in this way
+into a curated keyring is not a good idea. Better to extract into an
+ephemeral location, inspect, filter, and then selectively import.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+gpg(1), https://autocrypt.org, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3156
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+B<email-extract-openpgp-certs> and this manpage were written by Daniel
+Kahn Gillmor, with guidance and advice from many others.