diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87a187e..8ceaac3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ Or to add it in the GUI:
 
 With a filtering rule, Claws Mail will only run gpg-email-helper when it receives a new email (that contains a signature). To run it on all emails instead, you can add the rule to pre/post-processing instead, but can take upwards of a minute to load every time you open your inbox, can cause the POP3/IMAP connection to time out, and often just crashes Claws Mail. Instead, I'd just just running it manually if you want to import public keys from all your old emails.
 
-In bash, run this to run gpg-email-helper on all files with a signature:
+Run this to run gpg-email-helper on all files with a signature:
 
-```bash
-for item in $(ls $HOME/Mail/inbox/); do if [ $(grep -c -- "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----" $HOME/Mail/inbox/$item) != 0 ]; then python3 {SCRIPT LOCATION}/gpg-email-helper.py $HOME/Mail/inbox/$item; fi; done
+```sh
+bash -c 'for item in $(ls $HOME/Mail/inbox/); do if [ $(grep -c -- "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----" $HOME/Mail/inbox/$item) != 
+0 ]; then python3 ~/gpg-email-helper/gpg-email-helper.py $HOME/Mail/inbox/$item; fi; done'
 ```
 
 ## Todo
diff --git a/gpg-email-helper.py b/gpg-email-helper.py
index 998b141..ae5d62b 100644
--- a/gpg-email-helper.py
+++ b/gpg-email-helper.py
@@ -3,26 +3,29 @@ import hkp4py
 import os
 import sys
 import asyncio
-import subprocess
 
-async def get_pubkey(server, fingerprint, log):
+
+def do_hkp_stuff(server, fingerprint, log):
     # This isn't perfect, it's a loose search
     # for example searching for 7C79FCBB8372E5DE5B17E09A90D4B9641E092971 on keyserver.ubuntu.com returns the wrong key. But it works 99% of the time.
-    #return hkp4py.KeyServer(f'hkp://{server}').search(f'0x{fingerprint}')
-    results = await subprocess.getstatusoutput(f'gpg --keyserver {server} --recv-key {fingerprint}')
-    log.write(f'{server}: {results}\n')
-    print(f'{server}: {results}')
-    return results
+    try:
+        pubkey = hkp4py.KeyServer(f'hkp://{server}').search(f'0x{fingerprint}')
+        log.write(f'{server}: {pubkey}\n')
+        if pubkey != None:
+            import_result = gpg.Context().key_import(pubkey[0].key.encode())
+            log.write(f'Attempted to import from {server}: {import_result}\n')
+        else:
+            log.write(f'{server}: None\n')
+    except Exception as e:
+        log.write(f'{server}: [ERROR] {e}\n\n')
 
 
 def get_first_real_result(results):
     for s in results:
         s = list(s)
         for task in s:
-            try:
+            if task != None:
                 return task.result()
-            except asyncio.exceptions.InvalidStateError:
-                pass
     return None
 
 
@@ -110,17 +113,16 @@ async def main(log):
                     #'pgp.mit.edu' # still in operation but very unreliable
                 ]
 
+                # multithreads it
+                # TODO: make it stop after a thread gets the key
                 tasks = [
-                    asyncio.create_task(get_pubkey(server, fingerprint, log))
+                    asyncio.create_task(
+                        asyncio.to_thread(do_hkp_stuff, server, fingerprint, log)
+                    )
                     for server in keyservers
                 ]
-                #tasks = set(tasks)
-                results = await asyncio.gather(tasks)
-                print(1)
-                print(get_first_real_result(results))
-                print(3)
-                print(get_first_real_result(results))
-
+                tasks = set(tasks)
+                await asyncio.wait(tasks, return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED)
         except Exception as e:
             log.write(f'[ERROR] {e}\n\n')