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 145 2004-04-26 21:22:59Z weasel $

AUTHORS
    Ian Jackson and Peter Palfrader

