On 2000-10-20 13:51:13 +0200, Daniel Kollar wrote:

> I'm doing that. The environment is only active as long as mutt is
> open. No one from outside can access it.

That's your particular environment.  However, mutt is designed in a
way which makes it suitable for use on real multi-user systems.
You'll understand that we won't encourage practices which are
extremely unsafe on such systems - users will get used to these
pratices, and run into traps on real multi-user systems.

> The only thing a would agree is that someone can change the
> wrapper script to send the passphrase via email to outside...

If someone can let you execute Trojan programs or scripts, you have
a problem anyways.

> Maybe you have read my previous email regarding the
> mutt_octet-filter which can decrypt pgp encrypted octet-streams.
> The PGPPASS environment variable is the easiest way to remember
> the passphrase.

Did you try to change the content-type of these octet-streams to
application/pgp?  With the more recent mutt versions, you can
comfortably do this from within mutt.

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Thomas Roessler                         <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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