Hi, * David T-G [05/16/02 19:04:13 CEST] wrote: > ...and then Rocco Rutte said... > % I just ask without much hope of success. I guess that there's > % no way to hand some text over to mutt and force it to encrypt > % it with a public key (uid is known)? > % > % Okay, I knew it wouldn't work.
> I wouldn't give up yet. I do think it would take some clever > command-line switches and perhaps a little mime wrapping, though. Sounds like overkill since the solution (below) is much easier. > % I need to send a file encrypted to an account via a cronjob. > % Is there any chance doing it in mutt or do I really have to > % write some default-headers to a file and append the encrypted > % to text to be piped to some sort of sendmail? > You might have to write these headers, I know, but that isn't a problem typing the text actually will take longer than thinking about what to type. > % I guess this will work. Is there anything I have to pay > % attention to when having encrypted text inline with content/ > % type: text/plain? Does mutt need anything special to correctly > % recognize and decrypt it via $check_ppg_traditional? > This is certainly a valid approach, and probably the easiest to implement. > No, you shouldn't need anything special; a simple > cat file | gpg -ea -r 0xNNNNNNN | mutt -s "cron job" recipient Looks good, thanks. > will do, and then you can read it with an esc-P on the other end (still > thinking about a message-hook that will automatically detect that and hit > the esc-P for us...). Note that mutt is used trivially here; you could > use mailx just as well. Or I could use 'mutt -x'. > Above all, of course, is the question HAVE YOU TRIED IT FIRST? ;-) No, I haven't tried it. I guess I'll have to play around and try a few things. In fact, I need two different solutions. One as the above to send out some files via cron. The second is a bit more complicated. The command will be placed in /etc/aliases as an alias for a local user. All mail to that user should be encrypted with one of my public keys and forwarded to me. I've allready installed procmail which seems to be a better solution than /etc/aliases. Cheers, Rocco.
