On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:58:32PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote:
>
> I've got pgp (ver. 6.5.8i) working outside of mutt. I can also verify
> signed msgs after I get their public keys outside of mutt.
>
> But I can't sign outgoing msgs. After selecting the (s)ign command
> from the pgp menu enter my passphrase, I get a
>
> received signal 11
> press any key to continue...
>
> message and the message doesn't get sent.
Do you have
source "/usr/local/src/mutt-1.2.5/contrib/pgp6.rc"
in .muttrc? (with the appropriate path for your machine) This is
probably not the problem, but it's necessary.
PGP 6.5.8 and pgp6.rc don't work smoothly together when encrypting to
an untrusted key. When sending to an untrusted key PGP promts:
WARNING: Because this public key is not certified with a trusted
signature, it is not known with high confidence that this public key
actually belongs to: "Nancy Nobody <nosuchperson@nowhere>".
Are you sure you want to use this public key (y/N)?
Mutt apparently does not pass a "y" response back to PGP and so the
encryption fails due to the default "N."
If the key is trusted the question is not asked and the encryption
succeeds.
I asked about a fix for this before but got no responses. Fiddling
around today I found a hack that's ugly but works: remove the +batch
from the encrypt command in pgp6.rc. During the encryption process
after the prompt:
Are you sure you want to use this public key (y/N)?
appears, answer "y", then blindly "y" again and <enter>. The encrypted
message will be sent.
BTW, signing and verifying work for me within Mutt.
HTH,
-rex
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