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Re: Another GnuPG Problem



Piotr Jakubowicz wrote:
> The only problem is that when I browse an encrypted mail from a friend
> f mine, who happens to use mozilla with gnupg, mutt does not ask me for
> my mantra like it does when I am reading mails encrypted by myself but
> displays it in the encrypted version.
[...]
> If not, can it by that mutt is missing some kind of header variable
> which mozilla/gnupg does not implement in the mails it is composing? If
> so, is there a way to define a key/macro to invoke a decoding process in
> mutt?

I'd take a guess that your mozilla using friend is sending the messages
using the old inline (traditional) pgp format instead of the
standardized PGP/MIME format.  Unfortunately, most MUA's that are
openpgp-aware are still not using PGP/MIME so it's a necessity to deal
with this if you plan to use openpgp a lot.

Mutt has a function, check-traditional-pgp, which will parse the
message for the inline style openpgp format.  It's bound to ESC-P by
default.  If you get a lot of this type of message, you might want to
search the archives for links to Derek Martin's handy patch to
automate this.  I'm pretty sure he has version for both 1.4.1 and the
1.5 devel releases of mutt.

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