On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:55:32PM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
>
> What's happening is that the message you're receiving doesn't have
> the MIME headers that mutt needs to be able to notice that it's
> encrypted.
>
> There are recipes in PGP-Notes.txt for procmail and maildrop, which
> recognize the old-style PGP messages and add MIME headers, but
> neither procmail nor maildrop is a MIME processing tool, and so the
> recipes take a very simple approach: they make sure the message
> isn't already a multipart of any sort. This message is a multipart,
> you indicated that you're seeing this as attachment #3, which means
> that those recipes can't help you.
I am using the recipe from the gnupg faq and thank you for explaining why it doesn't
work
in all cases.
>
> The upshot is that you have only a couple of choices.
>
> You can do a smarter recipe, using a tool that includes a full MIME
> parser, to adjust the MIME types properly even for parts of existing
> multiparts. I've no clue how to pursue that one.
Too rich for me, I'm afraid.
>
> Or you can just live with it, and manually pipe the offending
> sections through gpg and then into a pager. Or you can save 'em out
> into external files, gpg 'em, and few the results. You might be able
This is what I have been doing. I happened to be a message I had cc'd to myself, which
surprised me because the headers should have been correct. It was the multipart which
was
the problem, from what you say. I have since sent tests to myself and had it work
properly.
> to simplify these things with macros, but I don't
know any way of > telling mutt to peek into the body and Do The Right Thing completely
> automatically; that'd require changes to the source. I haven't heard
> of anybody pursuing those changes, and since mutt is continuing to
> try to change the world on this point, by adamantly (or perhaps
> even "stridently") insisting on supporting nothing but RFC 2015
> PGP/MIME and demanding that the rest of the world follow suit, I
> wouldn't expect patches like that to be written by anybody who is
> following mutt's party line, nor would they be accepted into the
> main line of mutt.
>
> -Bennett
Thanks. Interesting background. Thanks, too, to David for your input.
Regards.
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