Re: Quest about SMIME and shell
On 2006-01-09 at 04:22 -0800, Zhan Zhaohua wrote:
> We read the documents of mutt again.
Always good. :-)
> Could we think if we successful configure the
> "muttrc" file , mutt will auto add the smime when we
> send the mail. And we find this
> file:"http://dev.mutt.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mutt/contrib/smime.rc?rev=3.6";
> . Does it help for us to configure the smime in the
> muttrc? Could we use this shell-command "cat smime.rc
> >> /ect/Muttrc" to add it? If we use the mutt which
> config file is default to use? "/ect/Muttrc" or
> "~/.muttrc"
Both /etc/Muttrc and ~/.muttrc are used. The /etc/Muttrc is used by all
users on a system; ~/.muttrc is used only by the user calling mutt,
since ~ is a short form of $HOME, which is normally set to a different
value for each user.
Which one to use depends upon your local set-up and what you're doing.
Generally, if only one user-account needs the special smime set-up, then
it makes sense to put the config into the ~/.muttrc file.
You do not need to append the smime.rc into a muttrc, you can include it
by giving the filename to the "source" command; in English, the way the
word is used here, "source" means the same as "include".
~/.muttrc:
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source /path/to/mutt/shared/configs/rc.smime
# This affects S/MIME signing, as opposed to TLS which already uses the system
# default paths if ssl_usesystemcerts true (is by default):
set smime_ca_location=/etc/ssl/certs
# Where we keep known certificates:
set smime_certificates="~/.smime/certificates"
# Path to where all private keys go. (must exist!)
set smime_keys="~/.smime/keys"
# Other SMIME settings ...
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