Mutt and PGP passphrase

2000-10-17 Thread Daniel Kollar
Mutt can remember the pgp passphrase once it is entered by the user. How does mutt passes the phrase over to pgp when en-/decrypting a message? Is there an algorithm that checks for the pgp passphrase input message and sends it as stdin ? Daniel.

Re: newbie? How to view mutt error messages.

2000-10-17 Thread davidturetsky
Yes, yes. There's a log which contains the full error message. Perhaps someone can give you the exact file -- David www.richSOB.com - Original Message - From: "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mutt Users' List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Rod Pike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Ewart
msg.pgp

Re: Mutt on Mac OS X ?

2000-10-17 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:14:36PM -0700, Eugene Lee wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has gotten Mutt to work under the Mac OS X > Public Beta. 1.2.4i didn't compile because it couldn't find things like A_NORMAL. I did find a curses library in some odd place, I might try again with slang or som

GnuPG autosign how

2000-10-17 Thread Rino Mardo
Hi. I have mutt 1.0.1-9 and GnuPG 1.0.1-2 installed in my Debian 2.2 box. I've looked at all the FAQs and I can't seem to figure out how to do "pgp_autosign" for all outgoing emails. All I get is: gnupg: [options] at the bottom of the screen after giving my passphrase and it won't be sent unl

Re: Mutt on Mac OS X ?

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas Roessler
You may wish to try ncurses instead of the system-supplied curses library. May be a good idea anyways. On 2000-10-17 11:30:45 +0100, John Wright wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:30:45 +0100 > From: John Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mutt Users ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Mutt on M

Re: Mutt and PGP passphrase

2000-10-17 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:06:23AM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Daniel Kollar thought: > Mutt can remember the pgp passphrase once it is entered by the user. > How does mutt passes the phrase over to pgp when en-/decrypting a message? > Is there an algorithm that checks for the pgp pass

mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Conor Daly
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:09:05PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Michael Elkins thought: > > I'll just add my $0.02US to this and agree with Bruce's example. After > spending lots of time trying to weed out spammers, I found the most > effective filter was to simple accept all known ad

Re: Fast forward (newbie++ question)

2000-10-17 Thread Nollaig MacKenzie
On 2000.10.17 06:08:33, you, the extraordinary Cliff Sarginson, opined: > Often after reading a mail I need to forward it to a certain email > address. This address is always the same one and I never need to change > the subject or add comments in the text etc. Unfortunately until I read > it I

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list of > folders with new mail on the "c" command. You mean, like space does? Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // T

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Bruce DeVisser
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:18:31AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through > the list of folders with new mail on the "c" command. for > instance, my Work-related mailboxes are listed before the > lists in .muttrc but there's times when I'm expecting a

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-10-17 10:18:31 +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list > of folders with new mail on the "c" command. for instance, my > Work-related mailboxes are listed before the lists in .muttrc but > there's times when I'm expecting a response to

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Martin Treusch von Buttlar
Hi, On 17.10, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Besides this, at the MTA level, see if you can get your sysadmin to > support the RBL and DUL blacklists at least (also the RSS if possible) - > http://www.mail-abuse.org There is a tool called blcheck, which can be used as a procmail-filter, and it

Re: Mutt and PGP passphrase

2000-10-17 Thread Daniel Kollar
> > Mutt can remember the pgp passphrase once it is entered by the user. > > How does mutt passes the phrase over to pgp when en-/decrypting a message? > > Is there an algorithm that checks for the pgp passphrase input message > > and sends it as stdin ? > and can I snoop it over a network? :-)

Re: Mutt on Mac OS X ?

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Wright wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:14:36PM -0700, Eugene Lee wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone has gotten Mutt to work under the Mac OS X > > Public Beta. > > 1.2.4i didn't compile because it couldn't find things like A_NORMAL. I > did find a curses library i

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:43:46PM -0700, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could someone post a simple spam receipe for procmail? I'm afraid I'll > end up filtering out my important mails. You know, things like distant > relatives writing to give me money and such.. > thanks I metho

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Martin Treusch von Buttlar proclaimed on mutt-users that: > There is a tool called blcheck, which can be used as a procmail-filter, > and it can use any DNS-RBL you like. I works great for me and you don't > even need to pester your BOFH to enable this. Like I said, spambouncer and walt dnes'

Re: urlview and netscape not fast enough to read tmp file ?

2000-10-17 Thread -kevin-
Ron & Others, On 00-08-24 17:49, Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I recall, doing something like adding copiousoutput to the > particular mailcap entry may work (by getting mutt to wait for you to > press a key)... or maybe it was needsterminal... 'copiousoutput'! Straight from my m

[Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread abnay
I suspect this is an FAQ. However, I couldn't find the answer. On Tru64 (Digital Unix) I configured mutt with --enable-flock --disable-fcntl together, only one of them as well as without either of them. In all cases, when I read my mail with the resulting executable and try to save a message, I

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:18:31AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list of > folders with new mail on the "c" command. for instance, my Work-related > mailboxes are listed before the lists in .muttrc but there's times when > I'm expecting a

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > Only hassle is that procmailing to block spam is like shutting the stable > _after_ the horse has bolted. You've already received the mail ... so any > saving in cost is illusory at best (esp with a desktop linux box conne

Re: Mutt and PGP passphrase

2000-10-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Daniel Kollar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > The passphrase is sent via the command > cat %?p?-? > > I'm not a unix expert. Can anyone explain these quotation marks (?), > please? > Can this %?p? be used in the mailcap file? > I need to send the passphrase to mutt_octet-filt

Re: GnuPG autosign how

2000-10-17 Thread David T-G
Rino -- ...and then Rino Mardo said... % Hi. I have mutt 1.0.1-9 and GnuPG 1.0.1-2 installed in my Debian 2.2 box. % % I've looked at all the FAQs and I can't seem to figure out how to do % "pgp_autosign" for all outgoing emails. All I get is: All you need to do is set pgp_autosign and mutt w

Re: [Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread David T-G
Bharadwaj -- ...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... % I suspect this is an FAQ. However, I couldn't It very well might be :-) % find the answer. On Tru64 (Digital Unix) I % configured mutt with --enable-flock --disable-fcntl % together, only one of them as well as without either Sure; those c

Re: automatically move old Mails in a separate folder

2000-10-17 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 22:24:36 +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > Ok, thats one point. But the problem is that when there are noch older > mails the first mail will be moved to ~/Mail/archiv, even if thats a new > mail. And this is my main problem. It is a well known problem. The 'tag-prefix' c

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mikko Hänninen proclaimed on mutt-users that: > I don't know, I think the annoyance factor reduction is quite > significant, and that shouldn't be discounted. True, there are no real > material cost savings achievable at this point. As a sysadmin for a largish isp + portal, my interests cent

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:07:05PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Only hassle is that procmailing to block spam is like shutting the stable > _after_ the horse has bolted. You've already received the mail ... so any > saving in cost is illusory at best (esp with a desktop linux box >

pgp-hook

2000-10-17 Thread Marco Ahrendt
hi all, if i put "pgp-hook pattern id" in my config, mutt is asking me to use id X for pattern Y. this is very useful. but why is he giving me a list of the keys after that ? i already set this hook so he should use this specified key. this is very annoying :) can anyone help me ? maybe there are

Re: [Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread abnay
David, Thanks for the quick reply. Although this was happenning on mailboxes that live in my user area and that have the right permissions, setting execute premissions of mutt_dotlock (they were not set initially) did the trick. Thanks again, Bharadwaj (Mutt can bounce AND thread!! Time h

Re: [Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that: > and that means that only root and the mail group -- and that probably > means *not* you - can write in there. To get around that but not tie so > much power into mutt itself, there is a little binary called mutt_dotlock > which should be installed with

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dave Pearson proclaimed on mutt-users that: > to be bothered with it. I'd call it a "cost saving" in that it becomes a > hell of a lot less annoying (and, if you're into reporting such email abuse > there is the added benefit of having the email so you can go to work on it). Point taken - and

Re: [Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed on mutt-users that: > (Mutt can bounce AND thread!! > Time has come to abandon ELM !!) sig fodder, several years ago ;) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI Pardon this fortune. Dat

[Announce] lbdb 0.22

2000-10-17 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
I just released a new version of the little brother's database with the following changes: * Add new module m_addr_email to request data from addressbook program (http://red.roses.de/~clemens/addressbook/) by Torsten Jerzembeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. * Some optimizations on m_addr_email

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:16:10PM +0300 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Mikko Hänninen thought: > Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list of > > folders with new mail on the "c" command. > > You mean, like

Re: Mutt and PGP passphrase

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Tatge
Mikko Hänninen muttered: > Daniel Kollar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > > The passphrase is sent via the command > > cat %?p?-? > > Can this %?p? be used in the mailcap file? > > I'm not sure, but the %?p?-? looks like a Mutt expansion string. >From my gpg.rc assuming that

Re: [Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread David T-G
Suresh -- ...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said... % David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that: % % > and that means that only root and the mail group -- and that probably % % Oh - and make sure /var/spool/mail has 1777 permissions. Are you sure that shouldn't be 2775 instead? I don't thin

Re: [Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread David T-G
Bharadwaj -- ...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... % David, % % Thanks for the quick reply. You're quite welcome. % % Although this was happenning on mailboxes that % live in my user area and that have the right Really? You mean you had a mailbox in a directory like $HOME/Mail and the per

Ref. env variables in muttrc

2000-10-17 Thread Jack McKinney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to use environment variable values in the .muttrc file somehow? What I'd like to be able to do is put my KeyID for my PGP key into an environment variable, and then have my .muttrc reference this, telling mutt "to find his key id,

Re: Ref. env variables in muttrc

2000-10-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Jack McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > Is it possible to use environment variable values in the .muttrc > file somehow? What I'd like to be able to do is put my KeyID for > my PGP key into an environment variable, and then have my .muttrc > reference this, telling mutt

pgp-error...

2000-10-17 Thread Jan- Hendrik Palic
Hi to all... sorry, this question is asked many time I thing I had read the documentation for mutt and pgp more or less and I installed pgp-2.6.3-i on my debian- mashine. I generated a new key and I I wanted to send me a test mail with a sign. In the send- menu of mutt, I hit p to use the p

Mutt not working with PGP 6.5.2

2000-10-17 Thread Chris Sechiatano
Hello, I'm trying to get PGP 6.5.2 working with mutt. I downloaded the pgp6.rc file and am sourcing it in my .muttrc. Everything seems to work up to the point where I choose the keyID for the user, then it bombs. Here is the message it outputs: -- Mutt: PGP keys matching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread raf
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Martin Treusch von Buttlar proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > > There is a tool called blcheck, which can be used as a procmail-filter, > > and it can use any DNS-RBL you like. I works great for me and you don't > > even need to pester your BOFH to enable this. >

Re: Wildcards in the mailboxes command?

2000-10-17 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:59:11AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > % > mailboxes `find ~/Mail -type f -print | grep -v sent | xargs` > > [BTW, Patric, you shouldn't even need the xargs on there.] I seem to need it. And understandably - find prints out each match on a seperate line.

Re: Wildcards in the mailboxes command?

2000-10-17 Thread raf
Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:59:11AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > > % > mailboxes `find ~/Mail -type f -print | grep -v sent | xargs` > > > > [BTW, Patric, you shouldn't even need the xargs on there.] > > I seem to need it. And understandably - find prints out each match on >

mutt_dotlock build problem in 1.2.5

2000-10-17 Thread David T-G
Hi, folks -- We've changed around to a homespool setup so I didn't notice until now, but mutt_dotlock didn't get built when I whipped up 1.2.5 with our usual patch cocktail. Running 'make' doesn't get me anything new; running 'make mutt_dotlock' gets me [zero] [12:29am] ~/xfer/mutt/mutt-1.2.5

Re: [Q] Couln't lock mailbox - FAQ?

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that: > Are you sure that shouldn't be 2775 instead? I don't think we need > stickiness, but to ensure that only root and mail can write in there... Not the mailboxes - the directory /var/spool/mail/ ... From the pine 4.21 docs ... In installations like

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
raf proclaimed on mutt-users that: > not if you run procmail on the other side of the modem > before popping the mail to the local host. That saves you part of the cost - but your ISP still has to bear the cost of receiving the spam - and several ISPs figure out the costs involved in getting

GNUpg repost

2000-10-17 Thread Rino Mardo
Sorry folks I'm reposting since my recipe dunk all my emails to /dev/null. doh. My question is how to make GNUPG (1.0.1-2) and mutt (1.0.1-9) sign all my emails automagically. At present if I manually make it sign an email it would ask for the passphrase, and then would puke and give me: gpg: [