Is it safe to use mbox?

2009-12-23 Thread 吴悦
Hi list, I want to use mbox mail format, I want to use the combination of mpop + procmail + mutt, but I have a question about the safe of using mbox: my mpop keeps running intervally in crontab, when I'm in mutt, when I do some mail management operators like deleting, viewing, is it safe? I know m

Re: Is it safe to use mbox?

2009-12-23 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wednesday, December 23 at 09:17 PM, quoth 吴悦: > I want to use mbox mail format, I want to use the combination of > mpop + procmail + mutt, but I have a question about the safe of > using mbox: my mpop keeps running intervally in crontab, when I'

reviving GPG with mutt

2009-12-23 Thread Scott Jones
A few months ago I moved my mutt installation and mail boxes over to a newer machine. I believe that my list of keys and all those other files and folders made the transfer safely but I unable to sign, with the passphrase i had set up on my old mail server. Where would gpg/pgp save all those keys

Re: reviving GPG with mutt

2009-12-23 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wednesday, December 23 at 09:27 AM, quoth Scott Jones: > A few months ago I moved my mutt installation and mail boxes over to a > newer machine. I believe that my list of keys and all those other > files and folders made the transfer safely but

Re: Is it safe to use mbox?

2009-12-23 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:17:57AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > Now, I'm assuming that you're storing your mbox locally on a standard > unix filesystem rather than on an NFS-mount or on an MS-DOS partition > or something similarly weird. Does mbox have issues on MS-DOS partitions? I wasn't awa

Re: reviving GPG with mutt

2009-12-23 Thread Dale A. Raby
> > Where would gpg/pgp save all those keys I had gathered from signed > email? What folder name? > should be in your /home/username/.gnupg folder. if you are using a GUI, you might have to go into "properties" and enable "show hidden files" in order to see it. Just a few SWAG's: the permiss

Re: reviving GPG with mutt

2009-12-23 Thread Breen Mullins
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:14, Dale A. Raby wrote: >> > should be in your /home/username/.gnupg folder.  if you are using a GUI, you > might have to go into "properties" and enable "show hidden files" in order to > see it. Assuming he came from and moved to a unix-like system. If either side