On 2025-01-21 (KW 04) at 15:52:07 (-0600) Ben Hyde wrote:
1. “Gpg” eh? What about “gpg2” … my memory is that last time I did this I used gpg2. 2. “/usr/local/bin” eh? I thought the brew folks moved to /opt/homebrew/bin on Apple Silicon. 3. I seem to remember solving this, at last once, with a symbolic link to where I found gpg installed, but that was a longtime ago.
if you install `gnupg2` with MacPorts, ie., the current standard version of GPG/PGP/whatever-the-hell-its-called, it installs to `/opt/local/bin/gpg`. There's nothing stopping you from just doing something like `sudo ln -s $(which gpg) /usr/local/bin/gpg`. I have had gpg symlinked like that for many versions of Mac OS and it's been fine. I'm on an M4 mini on Mac OS 15.x
4a. Of course mailMate runs as a child/spawn, of launchd. Luck me I already know how to set environment variable in launchd for this kind of thing.
It would be a significantly more complicated and unwieldy thing to try and set an environmental variable for a single application that does not run as a service that needs to be initiated by `launchd` on boot.
4b. Then I found an email that mentioned using “defaults set” to inject this info into mailmate defaults write com.freron.MailMate environmentVariables -array '{enabled = :true; name = "MM_GPG"; value = "/opt/homebrew/bin/gpg"; }'
I just tried running `defaults read com.freron.MailMate` but didn't see anything to suggest setting environmental variables.
Try mailmate's help for 'Hidden Preferences' and 'Low Level Customization'? that will help you navigate the MacOS `defaults` stuff.
So at point I seemed reasonably to ask if this was written down someplace.If not, I’ll just kick it until something works :)
Personally I'd symlink wherever the `gpg` (or whatever homebrew calls the installed binary) is to `/usr/local/bin/gpg` and not worry about it. Don't overthink it.
ander
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