Re: Quest about SMIME and shell
On 2006-01-08 at 06:41 -0800, Zhan Zhaohua wrote:
> We want use the mutt at out project, and in our
> plan we will use mutt by the shell command line. So we
> want use mutt in a shell script.
> We know in the bash shell through change the stdin
> to carry our point.
> But we don't find how to add the SMIME at the
> shell
[I've moved this reply to mutt-users instead of mutt-dev.]
My understanding of your question is: "How do we send SMIME-protected
email from a shell command-line using mutt? (We understand how to pipe
the mail in)" -- if my understanding is wrong, please correct me.
* "mutt -e <command>" lets you set any mutt option from the
command-line; to keep your bash script readable, you could build up a
list of options in a bash array, if you want to set a lot of them.
* "muff -F <file>" lets you put a number of mutt options in a special
config file and then use that config file. Then you can decide if
your set-up should have a permanent file holding the options, or if
the shell script should use mktemp to put the desired options into a
temporary file, which you can tell mutt to use, before deleting that
file.
If you want SMIME to "sign", then you'll have problems because that
operation requires access to the private key, which means that you'll
either need a way to pass in the protective passphrase or you'll need a
passphraseless key. If you just want to send the mail encrypted, then
you'll have fewer problems.
If you run "man muttrc" and search for "smime_" then you'll find all the
options you can set; look in particular at "smime_is_default" and
"smime_encrypt_command". Also look at contrib/smime.rc in the mutt
source distribution.
Hopefully, this is enough information to help you get started and let
you ask a more specific question if you still have problems. If so,
please do explain more about what you're trying to do with SMIME.
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