I think gnupg developers made a poor choice for the --recipient option,
so this patch is needed.
### FROM GPG MAN PAGE ###
HOW TO SPECIFY A USER ID
...
By exact match on an email address.
This is indicated by enclosing the email address in the usual way with
left and right angles.
<heinrichh at uni-duesseldorf.de>
...
By substring match.
This is the default mode but applications may want to explicitly
indicate this by putting the asterisk in front. Match is not case
sensitive.
Heine
*Heine
##########################
The problem arose when a friend of mine was trying to send a mail to me
brian at lorf.org -> ian at lorf.org
Instead of using me for a recipient, it was using him.
The supplied patch should fix this behavior.
--
Ian Taylor
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