Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
Something I've not seen in this thread: surely the header cache, if used, will leak information onto your hard drive? -- Cameron Simpson DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit-card information f

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-11 Thread markus reichelt
* Kyle Wheeler wrote: > It'll ask for my gpg password, decode it, etc. I can even then use > gpg-agent to store my passphrase and allow me to quit and restart > mutt multiple times without retyping the passphrase. With regard to gpg/gpg-agent and hibernating check this: http://lists.gnupg.org/p

Question on Attachment sent by Mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Qi Zhang
Hello, I meet with a problem sending emails with attachements by mutt. simplly like this: # code uuencode file_name file_name > att.email cat mail_message >> att.email mutt -s "Subject" recei...@somewhere.net < att.email with this script, I can send email with attachment very easy. and gmail

Re: Question on Attachment sent by Mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Jostein Berntsen
On 11.05.10,15:50, Qi Zhang wrote: > Hello, > > I meet with a problem sending emails with attachements by mutt. > simplly like this: > > # code > uuencode file_name file_name > att.email > > cat mail_message >> att.email > > mutt -s "Subject" recei...@somewhere.net < att.email > > > with this

Re: Question on Attachment sent by Mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Ed Blackman
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: On 11.05.10,15:50, Qi Zhang wrote: # code uuencode file_name file_name > att.email cat mail_message >> att.email mutt -s "Subject" recei...@somewhere.net < att.email with this script, I can send email with attachment very easy.

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-11 Thread chombee
Interesting responses! Thanks Kyle's idea of doing GPG on-the-fly decryption is interesting. But my question was, exactly what files do you need to decrypt? Obviously there are the config files, and the header cache, and the body cache if you have it turned on. Does mutt write information to any o

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, May 11 at 09:21 PM, quoth chombee: > Does mutt write information to any other files? Mutt would need to > be configured so that all files that it writes to are located in a > GPG-encrypted directory, including even any temporary files t

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-11 Thread chombee
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:33:43PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > So you're worried about the safety of deleted files? Disk encryption > may not guarantee that the message is never stored in memory (and thus > potentially swapped to disk) un-encrypted, so you definitely need > encrypted swap space

Re: Question on Attachment sent by Mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Qi Zhang
Yes, because the attachments are generated by scripts then put into different folders. Each receiver has different amount of attachments. redirect mail attachments to a single file is more easy than use "-a file1 file2" I plan to use mail -s "Subject" recei...@example.com < att.email (This attachme

Re: Question on Attachment sent by Mutt

2010-05-11 Thread bill lam
Does your version of mutt support the "-a" option which will generate proper mime-compliant header? Срд, 12 Май 2010, Qi Zhang писал(а): > Yes, because the attachments are generated by scripts then put into > different folders. > Each receiver has different amount of attachments. > redirect mail a

Re: Question on Attachment sent by Mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Qi Zhang
My Mutt version is 1.4.2, buildin with Centos 5.4 If I use -a option, everything goes well. But I should write more bash scripts on how many attaments for each receiver, with the file name and email address. Zhang Qi 2010/5/12 bill lam : > Does your version of mutt support the "-a" option whic

Re: Question on Attachment sent by Mutt

2010-05-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:50:20AM +0800, Qi Zhang wrote: > Yes, because the attachments are generated by scripts then put into > different folders. > Each receiver has different amount of attachments. If I understand correctly, this is trivial to do with mutt in a script, unless your attachment f