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How to import existing GPG keypair #2288

Closed ghost closed 1 year ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

I'm having trouble figuring out what directory that Mailpile reads gpg keypairs from. Is it possible to import my own gpg keys?

h3artbl33d commented 3 years ago

Yes, you can import your own GPG key. There are two routes on how Mailpile handles GPG keys:

You want to use a keypair corresponding to a mail account you have setup in Mailpile?

ghost commented 3 years ago

What I'm trying to do is import my own gpg key that I generated outside of mailpile.

edo0 commented 3 years ago

@Eggo-Plant You need to import it in you system GnuPG, from which Mailpile will take it up automatically https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/184947/how-to-import-secret-gpg-key-copied-from-one-machine-to-another