Required basic settings¶

owner [string]

Your name. REQUIRED.

email [string]

Your email address, used in From: lines. REQUIRED.

keyid [list of keyids]

A list of your keys. This is used to determine which signatures to keep in the pruning step. If you select a key using -u it has to be in this list. REQUIRED.

General settings¶

caffhome [string]

Base directory for the files caff stores. Default: $HOME/.caff/.

colors [hash]

How to color output messages. See the "Term::ANSIColor" documentation for the list of supported colors; colored output can be disabled by setting this option to an empty hash {}. Default:

        { error => 'bold bright_red'
        , warn => 'bright_red'
        , notice => 'bold'
        , info => ''
        , success => 'green' # used in combination with 'notice' and 'info'
        , fail => 'yellow'   # used in combination with 'notice' and 'info'
        }
    

GnuPG settings¶

gpg [string]

Path to the GnuPG binary. Default: The value of the GNUPGBIN environment variable if set, otherwise "gpg".

secret-keyring [string]

Path to your secret keyring (GnuPG < 2.1), or to the GnuPGHOME of the agent managing the secret key material (GnuPG >= 2.1). Default: $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg. If the value is not a directory with GnuPG >= 2.1, the parent directory (i.e., $HOME/.gnupg by default) is considered instead.

also-encrypt-to [keyid, or list of keyids]

Additional keyids to encrypt messages to. Default: none.

gpg-sign-type [string]

The prefix to the "sign" command used to make the signature from gpg's shell. Can be set to a mix of "l" (local), "nr" (non-revocable) or "t" (trust) to make a signature of the given type. See gpg(1) for details. Default: "" (i.e., make a regular, exportable, signature).

gpg-sign-args [string]

Additional commands to pass to gpg after the "sign" command. Default: none.

Key import settings¶

no-download [boolean]

If true, then skip the step of fetching keys from the keyserver. Default: 0.

key-files [list of files]

A list of files containing keys to be imported.

Signing settings¶

no-sign [boolean]

If true, then skip the signing step. Default: 0.

ask-sign [boolean]

If true, then pause before continuing to the signing step. This is useful for offline signing. Default: 0.

export-sig-age [seconds]

Don't export UIDs by default, on which your latest signature is older than this age. Default: 24*60*60 (i.e. one day).

local-user [keyid, or list of keyids]

Select the key that is used for signing, in case you have more than one key. With multiple keyids, sign with each key in turn.

also-lsign-in-gnupghome [auto|ask|no]

Whether to locally sign the UIDs in the user's GnuPGHOME, in addition to caff's signatures in its own GnuPGHOME. Such signatures are not exportable. This can be useful when the recipient forgets to upload the signatures caff sent (or if they are non-exportable as well), as it gives a way to keep track of which UIDs were verified. However, note that local signatures will not be deleted once the recipient does the upload and the signer refreshes her keyring.

If the value is not no and if gpg-sign-type contains "l", each (local) signature is merely exported from caff's own GnuPGHOME to the user's. Otherwise, if the value is auto, each UID signed in caff's own GnuPGHOME gets automatically locally signed in the user's, using the same certification level; this requires a working gpg-agent(1). If ask, the user is prompted for which UIDs to locally sign. Default: no.

show-photos [boolean]

If true, then before signing a key gpg will display the photos attached to it, if any. (The photo viewer can be specified with a "photo-viewer" option in caff's GnuPGHOME.) Default: 0.

Mail settings¶

mail [yes|ask-yes|ask-no|no]

Whether to send mails. This is a quad-option, with which you can set the behaviour: yes always sends, no never sends; ask-yes and ask-no asks, for each uid, with according defaults for the question. Default: ask-yes.

In any case, the messages are also written to $CONFIG{'caffhome'}/keys/

mail-cant-encrypt [yes|ask-yes|ask-no|no]

The value of this option is considered instead of that of mail for recipient keys without encryption capability. Default to the value of mail.

mail-subject [string]

Sets the value of the "Subject:" header field. %k will be expanded to the long key ID of the signed key. Default: "Your signed PGP key 0x%k".

mail-template [string]

Email template which is used as the body text for the email sent out instead of the default text if specified. The following perl variables can be used in the template:

reply-to [string]

Add a Reply-To: header to messages sent. Default: none.

bcc [string]

Address to send blind carbon copies to when sending mail. Default: none.

mailer-send [array]

Parameters to pass to Mail::Mailer. Default: none. Setting this option is strongly discouraged: fix your local MTA instead.

This could for example be

        $CONFIG{'mailer-send'} =  [ 'smtp', Server => 'mail.server', Auth => ['user', 'pass'] ];
    

to use the perl SMTP client, or

        $CONFIG{'mailer-send'} =  [ 'sendmail', '-f', $CONFIG{'email'}, '-it' ];
    

to pass arguments to the sendmail program. To specify a sendmail binary you can set the "PERL_MAILERS" environment variable as follows:

    $ENV{'PERL_MAILERS'} = 'sendmail:/path/to/sendmail_compatible_mta';
    

For more information see Mail::Mailer(3pm).