Brian Clark wrote: > * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 05. 2001 21:33]: > > > % I'm using GnuPG and some recipients' clients do not have the > > capability % to decipher PGP/MIME (see: Windows; TheBat!). > > > > <ultimate_flame_war>Screw 'em!</ultimate_flame_war> > > Flamewars aside, if you ever have to use Windows, TheBat! is actually > an exceptional MUA. (unless one wanted to use Mutt with Cygwin(sp?).)
i have heard that becky! is pretty good and can read PGP/Mime i think, at least with a plugin (and it has integrated regular PGP support). i downloaded the trial version on a 'doze machine at work, although i haven't used it much. the builtin editor is pretty cool too. however it's not free (and for that matter it seems to be difficult to pay for it even if you wanted to)... > I was reeeally hoping the HOW-TO's were going to say, "oh yeah, that's > eeeasy." :-) The manual says clear signing is seriously depreciated, > but there are a ton of people out there unfamiliar with PGP/MIME. That > makes me wonder why the author(s) of Mutt didn't go ahead and add in > support for clear signing that's on par with its PGP/MIME ease of use. i usually just do pgp/mime since on the rare occasions i sign or encrypt mails i usually do it to people who don't use outlook. i agree that it should be a bit easier to clearsign messages in mutt... although PGP/Mime is the "right" way. > > I have had wonderful success with the stock $pgp_create_traditional and > > the patch-supplied $pgp_outlook_compat settings; when both are "yes", > > even LookOut! users can read and reply to my signed mail. > > I'd have to figure out how to patch a source deb and rebuild it. I've > never done that before, but.. building .debs isn't too hard. but it's probably easier to uninstall the debian package and just build your own... that's what i usually do. looks like the patch is already in the .deb for woody / sid so you should be all set: ladd [~]% apt-get source mutt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 2517kB of source archives. Get:1 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main mutt 1.3.23-4 (dsc) [702B] Get:2 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main mutt 1.3.23-4 (tar) [2478kB] Get:3 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main mutt 1.3.23-4 (diff) [38.9kB] Fetched 2517kB in 22s (111kB/s) dpkg-source: extracting mutt in mutt-1.3.23 ladd [~]% cd mutt-1.3.23 ladd [~/mutt-1.3.23]% cd debian ladd [mutt-1.3.23/debian]% cd patches ladd [debian/patches]% ls 000_patch-1.2.xtitles.1 001_use-etc-mailname 000_patch-1.3.22.1.cd.edit_threads-5.1 002_paths-mutt.man 000_patch-1.3.23.rr.compressed.1 002_use-editor 001_Muttrc 010_patch-1.3.23.Md.gnutls.1 001_muttbug-warning 020_patch-1.3.15.sw.pgp-outlook.1 001_po-norebuild does doing :set pgp_outlook_compat? or whatever the option is work? is the option mentioned in the muttrc (5) man page? i build from source on my mail machine, but on a woody machine at work the pgp_outlook_compat option is mentioned already. -- William Yardley System Administrator, Newdream Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/gpg.asc
