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Re: about pgp-signed messages



On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:43:44PM -0500, Rouben Rostamian wrote:

> I have not experimented with pgp-signing mainly because I am not quite
> convinced of its value in casual communications, such as messages sent
> to this, or any other, mailing list.

When some spammer starts sending all sorts of crap to a list you're on
claiming to be you, you may rapidly become convinced of its value.

> On the other hand, I finds signed messages annoying.  I don't have
> any of senders' public keys -- this is an international forum, after
> all -- so pgp verification always fails.

Well, you can set GPG to automatically fetch keys, or you can manually fetch 
keys you care about (which is what I do, with a handy little script).

> purpose.

huh?

> Is there a way to tell mutt that I don't care to see any of this
> pgp-related stuff?

RTFMing, one notes in 6.3 (configuration variables):

pgp_verify_sig

Type: quadoption
Default: yes

If ``yes'', always attempt to verify PGP/MIME signatures. If ``ask-yes'' or
``ask-no'', ask whether or not to verify the signature. If ``no'', never
attempt to verify PGP/MIME signatures.

HTH,
 - Dave

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