Re: Retrieve POP mail automatically?

2012-12-16 Thread Dale Raby
On 12/16/2012 10:37 AM, John Long wrote: > Is there any way to retrieve pop mail automatically in mutt itself rather > than using fetchmail etc.? > > Thanks. > > /jl > The short answer is "yes". The long answer is, maybe, if your particular Mutt is compiled with the POP support option. You will

Re: Search messages

2012-12-17 Thread Dale Raby
On 12/17/2012 05:38 PM, Woody Wu wrote: > Hi, List > > From help menu I don't see any search method other than '/'. I think > there must be some method allowing user to search messages by sender, > receipt, or even regular expression in body. > > How should I do this? Thanks. > > I believe the

Re: Why sign every message? (was Re: Sending attachments without crypt_autosign

2013-03-06 Thread Dale Raby
I sign most of my messages, even though I only know a few people who actively use GnuPG/PGP. As I see it, this is one way of promoting encryption. I.e.: "What is that block of gibberish you have at the end of your emails?" "That, my friend is my public key. If you have the right software you ca

Re: Download multiple attachments at once

2013-07-27 Thread Dale Raby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You could make an archive of the files and call it something like sisterphotos.tar.gz. This is what I do when I am sending more than two or three attachments. This way you only have one file to attach. The downside is that the recipient must have ap

Re: Encrypting postponed messages

2013-09-06 Thread Dale Raby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If it's sensitive > enough to be encrypted outgoing, it's sensitive enough to be > encrypted on disk... even if you haven't actually sent it yet. > Well, its easy enough to encrypt the whole disk with modern OS's, so if the message is on your machine

Re: mutt and gpg not in tune

2010-03-17 Thread Dale Raby
I'm not an expert, but shouldn't mutt call /home/jan/.gnupg? -- "Nothing is ever so bad that it couldn't be worse, and if it could be worse than it is, then maybe its not so bad!"

Re: where do you store your gpg-keys

2010-06-25 Thread Dale Raby
I'm not an expert, but there is a work around I think will work. You can store your keys on a flash drive... and possibly the entire OS for that matter. If you do this, you have no problems. Alternatively, you can encrypt a document and send it as an attachment. Your fellow international spy ty