Hi folks, Like many of us here, presumably, I use mutt as my MUA, and to use it in X I have an icon which launches an Eterm with my mutt theme. Part of this theme is the directive "exec mutt", which basically loads mutt automatically into the Eterm. All in all, I find this to be a good combination and to work well.
Recently my computer moved to a location where it is behind a BOFH-style firewall, which requires all access to go through a web proxy (mainly to keep the napster-puppies from sucking all our bandwidth and bankrupting us). One consequence of this is that I need to tell GnuPG to use a proxy server for checking people's pgp keys, which means it needs to be able to find an environment variable $http_proxy. The problem is, because Eterm just exec's mutt, without calling a shell first, no environment variables are passed to it, so it doesn't get the $http_proxy variable, and GnuPG key-checking doesn't work. I could, presumably, just make Eterm call a little shell script, set it there, and have that launch mutt, but that's a less-than-elegant solution, IMHO. Does anyone have any suggestions? Something that I have maybe overlooked in the documentation of either mutt or Eterm? cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) -
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