It's been almost 20 years since I filed that wishlist report, so my memory of what I was doing is a bit hazy. Props to you for following up on such an old report, though!
As I recall, I was just using mutt or something as an email client at the time and it didn't have good support for MIME-encoded PGP messages. The mimegpg program was extremely useful as a command line tool that I could use to filter messages and do the signing/encrypting/verifying/decrypting work. I wasn't using courier at all in this context, I was just calling mimegpg directly from mutt, which was looking at a mailbox that as I recall was synced from my ISP via offlineimap. I had a friend at the time who was also using mimegpg in a somewhat goofier non-courier-related context: they had an email server running exim which would accept pgp-encrypted messages, decrypt them server side using mimegpg, and store or forward them with the pre-decrypted content from there. I don't remember exactly /why/ they were doing this, but they got it working just fine. In any case, I'm not using that setup for my email anymore, so this doesn't really matter to me at this point. But mimegpg was (and, I assume, still is) a well-written filter that didn't really need any courier stuff to be useful, and it was sort of a shame that at the time in order to use it you had to pull in all the other courier stuff. It felt to me like courier shipped with a few very useful little utilities like that which deserved more attention than they got. Cheers, -Jules On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 2:28 PM Julian Kongslie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> > Date: Jul 1, 2026 13:45 > Subject: Bug#416191: courier: Please package mimegpg as separate package. > To: [email protected],[email protected] > Cc: > > I have recently taken over maintenance of the courier packages. Can you > explain more to me how you would use mimegpg in other settings? > > -- > Soren Stoutner > [email protected] > >
