Dave --

...and then Dave Smith said...
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% On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:37:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% > I agree that what you wish to accomplish (having mutt automatically
% > encrypt a file that you attach for sending) should be possible.  My
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% Sorry, perhaps I haven't explained myself well enough.
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% I currently have two problems (with mutt and GPG anyway), hence two threads.

Ah.  Now I get it.


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% The first one (concerning this thread) is unrelated to the batching/scripting
% problem.  I am simply unable to send a GPG-encrypted mail.  I create the

Hokay.  This certainly will require some debugging, but I haven't had to
debug much and so I won't be much of a resource for you here.  Sorry!
Now to see who else chimes in with ideas...


% 
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% GPG signing works fine - I can sign mails (like this one), but I just can't
% encrypt them.

I noted your reply with a wry grin :-)


% 
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% There are two things I want to do.  The first is to continue to work as
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% The second is that I want to write a script - something like 'mail_to_home'
% that can be added to any script that I'm running, to send an arbitrary file

Yeah; good idea.


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% selected files home allows me to check how things are running, so I can
% decide whether I need to go and fix something.

No VPN from home?  Ouch!


% 
% It's also potentially useful when not in the office - most of the people
% around here are not GPG-aware, so the best way of getting them to mail a
% file to you securely is to give them a script that they can just run on
% the file.

Yeah.  That will work regardless of what MUA they use, too.


% 
% I suspect that I may solve the second problem outside of mutt with a
% PERL script using the relevant MIME packages.

Sounds likely.  Best of luck!


HTH & HAND

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