Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:10:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Donald P. Dahlman" <druid@eoe-magical.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PGP question Message-ID: <19980831121012.R606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35E9B342.D4928286@eoe-magical.org>; from Donald P. Dahlman on Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 09:17:06PM %2B0100 References: <35E90B60.20DAD8F6@eoe-magical.org> <19980831082953.D606@freebie.lemis.com> <35E99734.E6641A78@eoe-magical.org> <19980831095642.N606@freebie.lemis.com> <35E99F1E.E4CE0826@eoe-magical.org> <19980831114159.Q606@freebie.lemis.com> <35E9B342.D4928286@eoe-magical.org>
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[Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Sunday, 30 August 1998 at 21:17:06 +0100, Donald P. Dahlman wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 30 August 1998 at 19:51:10 +0100, Donald P. Dahlman wrote: >>>>>>> when an encrypted message is retrieved, is there an >>>>>>> automated way to have it un-encrypted automatically when it is >>>>>>> retrieved from the server. >>>>>> >>>>>> Depends on what kind of message, and what you mean by "server". If >>>>>> you're talking about mail messages, mutt will do this for you >>>>>> automatically. >>>>> >>>>> I collect me mail with my NT machine, using netscape, how would mutt >>>>> handle this as it would need to be converted when downloaded for reading. >>>> >>>> If by "collect" you mean downloading with POP, you need a program like >>>> qpopper to do that. But the real way is to use sendmail. >>>> >>>> In any case, if you use mutt, you don't use Netscape or NT. See >>>> http://www.lemis.com/email.html for more details. >> >> I wish you wouldn't remove the context. It's only a coincidence that >> I know what the message is about like that. I've restored it above, >> hopefully correctly. >> >>> I have my own server. I have sendmail running, >> >> What do you mean by "collect", then? >> >>> and have PGP installed to encrypt mail sent to me from html >>> forms. In its raw form, the email is collected, then I run pgp in a >>> command line to decrypt it, want it to be done automaticaly when I >>> open or download the mail. >> >> What do you mean by "download"? >> >> In any case, if you use mutt, it'll be done automatically. > > so you are saying that if I install mutt on my unix server, then > when I retrieve my email using Netscape under NT, instead of getting > the encrypted ascii data, it will decrypt it and present me with the > notmal text. No. I'm saying use FreeBSD and mutt, not NT and Netscape. I don't use Microsoft, and I'm not qualified to tell you how you can do things with Microsoft (if it's even possible). I'm also saying I don't understand what you're saying, and I asked a number of questions. You might also like to compare chapter 30 of "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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