---
name: "gpg-mailkeys"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "signing-party"
version: "2.11-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gpg-mailkeys"
---

# gpg-mailkeys(1)

sends emails containing keys to their owners

## NAME

**gpg-mailkeys** - sends emails containing keys to their owners

## SYNOPSIS

**gpg-mailkeys** id*...*

## DESCRIPTION

**gpg-mailkeys** sends the owners of the keys listed on the command line a mail each, containing their public key. After signing, you can use this tool to send everyone the new signatures they just got.

If you're interested in encrypting the signature before it's sent, in order to verify that the associated address actually belongs to the key owner, you should check out **caff**

## OPTIONS

None

## ENVIRONMENT

- *NAME*

  Set the name to use when sending messages

- *EMAIL*

  Set the email address to use when sending messages

- *SUBJECT*

  Set the subject of the messages you send

- *TEXT*

  Set the body text of the messages

- *SENDMAIL*

  Set the path to sendmail. Default: /usr/sbin/sendmail

- *SENDMAIL\_ARGS*

  Set arguments to pass to $SENDMAIL. This can be useful to set credentials in order to authenticate to an smtp server when using ssmtp for example.

- *HOME*

  Set the default home directory.

- *GNUPGBIN*

  Set the gpg binary.  Default: "gpg".

- *GNUPGHOME*

  Set the default working directory for gpg.  Default: "~/.gnupg".

## FILES

The behavior of **gpg-mailkeys** can be updated through some files available in the user home directory.

Thus, **~/.gpg-mailkeysrc** allows the user to overwrite the default value for the above environment variables, and any text in **~/.signature** will be appended to the end of the body text of the message.

## SEE ALSO

[**gpg**(1)](/gpg/1.md),[**caff**(1)](/caff/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Simon Richter \<sjr@debian.org\>.