Re: [PLUG] encryption question

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

Ok, thanks.  I do use procmail.  I'll try the recipe (It's in the faq
also.)  This may solve the incoming problem.  My friend is running 
Outlook Express on a Macintosh (OS X) so I'm not sure if he's got 
procmail or how it work in his case.   

Still researching....


Eric

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:13:17PM -0500, Kuzman Ganchev wrote:
> Not only that, there's even an FAQ:
> 
> from http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq.html:
> 
>     Why can't Mutt decode this PGP mail sent with Pine/ELMme/etc?
>    
>     Because this PGP mail does not say it is a PGP mail in the header, and Mutt
>     only scans the header of mails. This is a feature!
>     Well, there is a solution for your problem, if you use procmail. Add these
>     lines to your .procmailrc:
>     # Add a "Content-Type: application/pgp" header so Mutt will know the
>     # mail is encrypted.
>     :0 fBw
>     * ^-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
>     * !Content-type: multipart
>     | formail -i "Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=encryptsign"
> 
>     # Add a "Content-Type: application/pgp" header so Mutt will know the
>     # mail is signed.
>     :0 fBw
>     * ^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>     * !Content-type: multipart
>     | formail -i "Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign"
> 
> I guess if you don't use procmail, that doesn't work...
> 
> Kuzman
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:02:38AM -0500, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> > Thanks!  For some reason I never knew there was a mutt mail list.
> > I'll check it out.
> > 
> > Eric
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:20:18PM +0100, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:25:26PM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > > > At 10:59 AM 2/19/2002 -0500, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> > > > >When he sends and encrypted/signed message to me, mutt sees it as
> > > > >inline text and won't decrypt it with gpg.  I've got to save it to a
> > > > >file.... you get the idea.
> > > > 
> > > >         Have him check his PGP mailing options.  Make sure he is using MIME.
> > > 
> > > The mutt mailing list has this question so often it must be findable
> > > on google, but I'll let you search yourself, as I don't have time just
> > > now. But the summary is that a popular solution has something to do
> > > with formail.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >  Jeff
> > > 
> > >  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
> > > 
> > >  The Big Book of Misunderstanding, now in bookstores and on the web:
> > >  <http://www.misunderstanding.net/buystuff.html>



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#   Eric Allan Lucas 
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