consider the command:

gpg -r $recip" --quiet --encrypt

It currently sends the following message to stderr:

gpg: automatically retrieved 'test@example.org' via Local

Two problems with this:

• it's not being quiet even though i said --quiet
• it's a misleading/confusing message. "automatically retrieved" sounds like there was some sort of fetch operation, but "via Local" suggests that there wasn't. I think it's structured this way because it's a generic message, but it's particularly difficult to understand, so i think it's worth making it less generic.