On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 03:56:30PM -0400, Howard Arons wrote:
-> I just can't get the hang of verifying a signed cleartext message. In
-> this case it's one I sent to myself.
->
-> First, I cannot access any kind of "PGP menu" in the index or pager,
-> like I can when composing a message. So I have to pipe the signes
-> message to 'pgpv' and it says that I have a detached sig, and asks what
-> file it pertains to, and of cousre I have no filename to give it.
->
-> I can sign a message via my editor so that the sig is included in the
-> text, and I can verify such a message without error.
->
-> I've read the Mutt page, the PGP-Notes.txt, and whatever else I can
-> find, but no joy.
->
-> Typical header info:
-> [-- Attachment #1 --]
-> [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable, Size: 0.1K --]
->
-> [-- Attachment #2 --]
-> [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.2K --]
->
-> For the record, here's the output of 'mutt -v'
-> Mutt 1.0i (1999-10-22)
->
-> System: Linux 2.2.14 [using ncurses 3.0]
-> Compile options:
-> -DOMAIN
-> -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
-> -USE_IMAP -USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR
-> +HAVE_PGP5 +HAVE_PGP2 -BUFFY_SIZE
-> -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
-> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
-> MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
-> SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
-> SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
-> ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
-> _PGPPATH="/usr/local/bin/pgp"
-> _PGPV2PATH="/usr/local/bin/pgp"
-> _PGPV3PATH="/usr/local/bin/pgp"
->
-> What am I missing here?
-> --
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-> Communications by Mutt 1.0i
First suggestion: upgrade to the latest mutt, 1.2 or so. The gpg/pgp
configuration has changed a lot, and there are sample config files that
you can drop right in. I was able to use gpg within minutes with the
latest mutt.
Once you do that, there is a pgp menu in the compose window.
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