Re: [PLUG] PGP (GPG): inline vs mime

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@toren.net>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:44:45PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Mutt will verify the PGP key if I type escape-P.  But I don't understand
> why.  Is there a good reason for people to do this, or should I politely
> suggest they use PGP/Mime instead?  I also don't see how to get mutt to
> auto-validate such messages the way it does for PGP/Mime.

The PGP-Notes.txt[1] file distributed with mutt suggests using the
following procmail recipe to convert inline PGP data to PGP/Mime:

    :0
    * !^Content-Type: message/
    * !^Content-Type: multipart/
    * !^Content-Type: application/pgp
    {
        :0 fBw
        * ^-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
        * ^-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
        | formail \
            -i "Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=encrypt"

        :0 fBw
        * ^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
        * ^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
        * ^-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
        | formail \
            -i "Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign"
    }

Although personally, I would rather hit Meta-P to check an individual
inline message rather than trying to muck with MIME-types automatically.

-mct

[1] PGP-Notes.txt can be found at <http://www.mutt.org/doc/PGP-Notes.txt>,
    or on a Debian system at <file:///usr/share/doc/mutt/PGP-Notes.txt.gz>.

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/,\$_/xg;s/X/(0..7/g;s/P/print+/g;eval' #     Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net>

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