-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, September 24 at 10:03 PM, quoth P.M.: >> Eh? That wouldn't do anything at all in a muttrc, that I'm aware >> of, and *should* cause mutt to complain. Under what context is that >> in your muttrc---is it in the middle of a variable setting or >> something? > > These are the two instances I was referring to, been > that way a long time and mutt has never complained:
Okay. The way to modify them to use %a in a straightforward way is this: set pgp_encrypt_only_command="pgpewrap gpg --batch --quiet --no-verbose --output - --encrypt --textmode --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to %a -- -r %r -- %f" set pgp_encrypt_sign_command="pgpewrap gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --batch --quiet --no-verbose --textmode --output - --encrypt --sign %?a?-u %a? --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to %a -- -r %r -- %f" If you want to make them more flexible, you can use conditionals: set pgp_encrypt_only_command="pgpewrap gpg --batch --quiet --no-verbose --output - --encrypt --textmode --armor --always-trust %?a?--encrypt-to %a? -- -r %r -- %f" set pgp_encrypt_sign_command="pgpewrap gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --batch --quiet --no-verbose --textmode --output - --encrypt --sign %?a?-u %a? --armor --always-trust %?a?--encrypt-to %a? -- -r %r -- %f" > So you say I should set the "--encrypt-to" in those two instances to > "%a?" and the "set pgp_sign_as=" to "%?a?-u %a?" (quoted or > unquoted?)... Please confirm and I'll go ahead with it. No, you're not understanding me. The "%a", when used in a $pgp_*_command variable (namely $pgp_encrypt_only_command, $pgp_encrypt_sign_command, $pgp_sign_command, $pgp_decode_command, $pgp_decrypt_command, and $pgp_clearsign_command) gets replaced with the contents of the $pgp_sign_as variable. Thus, if you have this: set pgp_sign_as=foo set pgp_sign_command="gpg %a" Then when needed, $pgp_sign_command will be treated as if it had been set to "gpg foo". So, if you do this: set pgp_sign_as=0x31577172 set pgp_sign_command="gpg --encrypt-to %a" Then, when $pgp_sign_command is needed, mutt will treat it as if it had been set to "gpg --encrypt-to 0x31577172". If you want to make it able to handle the following situation: unset pgp_sign_as ...then you'd need to rewrite it like this: set pgp_sign_command="gpg %?a?--encrypt-to %a?" In which case, if $pgp_sign_as is empty, $pgp_sign_command will be interpreted as "gpg ", but if $pgp_sign_as is set to something (say, "foo"), will be interpreted as "gpg --encrypt-to foo". %a is NOT a "magic" token to magically read your mind and figure out what key you should be using to sign things. Thus, the following makes no sense: set pgp_sign_as="%a" That would be akin to doing this: set pgp_sign_as="$pgp_sign_as" Hopefully, you see what I'm saying... > With my previous setup, then, I was erroneously encrypting/signing > with my public key?!? Probably not. What makes you think that? > Here is the whole of my pgp section... Please let me know what else > I messed up and should now change... That all looks fine. ~Kyle - -- In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -- Oscar Wilde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFG+DhJBkIOoMqOI14RAmtwAJ9oqP5s0osmrmUtAjPe+OYHRJRiZwCfal6V DlnExN6TOvcYe7xCpwsfSvM= =euge -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----