On Friday, 20 April 2018 19:18:57 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > mutt couldn't handle the message from Klaus Ethgen, listed in menu as... > > Apr 19 Klaus Ethgen (1.5K) [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background > > Trying to open it gave following message in status line at bottom... > > Could not copy message > > Google searching found other people with the same problem, only with > signed messages. There was speculation about mutt and gpg not working > together well, but no solutions specified. I came up with a rather > heavy-handed solution.
This may have been unnecessary. > I originally had the "gpg" USE flag enabled for mail-client/mutt in > package.use. Setting "-gpg" for mutt, and rebuilding "solves the > problem", at the cost of removing gpg functionality. Just a heads up in > case anybody else runs into the same problem. Some of the mutt USE flags changed recently. I seem to recall some elog/ewarn message on this. Instead of USE=gpg and USE=smime, try USE=gpgme instead and then add: 'set crypt_use_gpgme=yes' in your /$HOME/.muttrc. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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