Michael D Schleif wrote:
> Suppose that I want to encrypt a message to myself. As it is, when
> I receive that message in mutt, it is automatically decrypted and
> displays the decrypted message automatically.
>
> How can I configure mutt/pgp so that I must enter the password
> *prior* to being able to read the encrypted message?
The setting $pgp_timeout controls how long (in seconds) mutt will
cache a pgp passphrase. It defaults to 300. So if you receieve your
own message within that time and open it, mutt won't need a passphrase
to decrypt it. You could set the value to something less or 0 to
disable caching.
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Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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