[Gllug] mutt/gpg - success

[Paul Brazier]

I've finally got mutt and gpg to work properly.
I removed and re-installed the mutt rpm and re-used my saved .muttrc and
gpg.rc and it worked. (Mandrake 8.0)
But without my tweaked .muttrc and gpg.rc it was using /etc/Muttrc (I
think) which is pretty empty and didn't do {en|de}cryption at all. So
I'm not really sure what the problem was.
I did notice mutt left loads of temporary files lying around in various
places, probably because I had to Ctrl-C when gpg was hanging, so
perhaps one of these was locking everything up.

> I don't use gpg.rc - my muttrc was created by the muttrc 
> builder (but I 
> think that really just set up where to collect mail from) all 
> pgp related entries are commented out!

What is this muttrc builder and how do I access it? All I got was a
couple of example .muttrc's and a gpg.rc.
 
> but.. there is an interesting dicusiion going on on the 
> mutt-users mailing
> list at the moment. It seems like mutt uses the latest 
> standard (mime/pgp)
> but most other mail clients use pgp/cleartext which is an old 
> and apparenltly
> broken standard (content is labeled as plain text when it is 
> better labeled as
> pgp text and the system doesn't work for non-ascii text)
> 
> there are variuos threads that you could look at 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg19618.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg19459.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg19456.html

Thanks, I'll check out this mailing list.
I did also have to include the procmail amendment to convert inline PGP
(like Outlook Express sends) to MIME attachments.


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