Thanks Olaf and Carlos for the recommendations (topal and ppf scripts). I'll give them a try!
I run my own patched alpine as it is, so i don't mind patching it further if necessary to get the PGP/MIME support. Carl On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 15:26 Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info < alpine-info@u.washington.edu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > El 2024-04-08 a las 13:09 +0200, Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info escribió: > > > Hi Carl, > > > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 11:09, Carl Edquist via Alpine-info wrote: > > > >> I'm curious if there is a recommended way to get PGP working with > >> Alpine, to read and send PGP encrypted mails? > >> > >> Eduardo or anyone else here gotten this working? > > > > I use PGP in Alpine with Topal. This works well so far. > > > > https://green-pike.co.uk/topal/ > > > > I use both programs (Alpine and Topal) from the Debian sources. > > I use ppf_ scripts or filters, from dougb (Douglas Barton): > > > http://dougbarton.us/PGP/scripts/ppf/ and/or > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/dougb/ > > > > > > There is only one issue: As installed from the Debian sources, Topal > > works only for PGP/Inline. > > > > Most of the people I know using PGP use PGP/MIME. This seems to be the > > standard now, Thunderbird for instance has dropped support of > > PGP/Inline some time ago. It is a little complicated to decrypt these > > messages, especially when there are attachments included. > > Yes, this is indeed an issue. > > Alpine does not recognize signatures made by Thunderbird, and the other > way around. In fact, people ask what is that stuff (text) in the middle of > the email. > > > > There is a patch for Alpine described in the Topal documentation to > > make it capable of PGP/MIME. Since I use Alpine on several systems, I > > very much like to stick with the distributed version (here Debian > > stable with Alpine 2.26). I therefore never tried to install the > > patch. An native Alpine with support of PGP/MIME would be great! > > Topal is available on openSUSE: > > Telcontar:~ # zypper info Topal > ... > > Information for package topal: > - ------------------------------ > Repository : EXT: Packman Repository > Name : topal > Version : 76-150500.4.pm.5 > Arch : x86_64 > Vendor : http://packman.links2linux.de > Installed Size : 2.1 MiB > Installed : No > Status : not installed > Source package : topal-76-150500.4.pm.5.src > Upstream URL : https://zircon.org.uk/topal/ > Summary : A tool to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify emails > Description : > Topal is a "glue" program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. > It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify emails. > > Telcontar:~ # > > > > > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. > (from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZhPiXhwccm9iaW4ubGlz > dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVPCYAnRm1tH+WErG7CuzHuQtY > CnAYLWFNAJ9tKY6hez1aKxTvxpOFrWDozo+pPA== > =PhZ2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----_______________________________________________ > Alpine-info mailing list > Alpine-info@u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info >
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