Re: Another mutt and gpg question

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, January 28 at 02:28 PM, quoth Dan H.:
>1. I can't access encrypted mail that I send. When I try to read
>   it, I get "Could not copy message".

That's by design (but it's a rather uninformative error message). 
Encrypted email can only be read by those who have the private key to 
decrypt it. In order to read encrypted mail that you send you have to 
either 1) encrypt it to yourself as well (you can do this by changing 
gpg's configuration, or by adding --encrypt-to with your own PGP key 
to all of the mutt encryption commands in your muttrc) or 2) set 
fcc_clear, so that sent messages are saved to your Sent box 
unencrypted.

>2. when I receive an encrypted mail, I see a text block of gibberish that
>   I have to manually pipe through GPG externally. Why doesn't mutt
>   auto-detect encrypted mails, like it does with signed mails?

set pgp_auto_decode=yes

At this point (i.e. now that you're at the "it'd be more convenient 
if..."), I strongly recommend reading through the muttrc man page. 
You'll find all *kinds* of interesting and useful settings in there.

~Kyle
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