On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:58:21AM NZDT, Don Gould wrote: > Thanks for all this insite! :) > > I'm starting to get a big list of things that I would like to learn about at > an install fest... > > Is there a version of mutt for windows as well as kde?
Mutt is console based, and can run anywhere a terminal can run. For windows, it can be installed with cygwin. I can't say I've tried it, but given my work with cygwin in the past, it should be fully functional. For any unix, it should run with no dramas. :) > I'd like to know more about pgp as well... The best place to start is having a read through the GNU Privacy Handbook.[1] There's also a wonderful mailing list on yahoogroups covering PGP and GPG from both windows and linux users.[2] I was planning on using a clug meeting for a seminar on gpg and a keysigning event, but I seem to be stupidly busy at the time the meetings are going on. It's not a topic that can really be rushed and thrown together. I'd need enough time to do it properly... > Can mutt also be configured to send out an auto response based on the > presents of a cert? > I'm thinking that I'll forward emails to my mobile where they're signed. At > present I can't forward anything to mobile because I'd end up with so much > spam. (All: Think about what I'm saying before you flame me with suggestions > about setting up a spam filter :) This is probably better for procmail to handle. You can tell it to watch for PGP messages and process them however you like. I understand where you're going with this. I'm tempted to do roughly the same with my personal mail. Mailing lists get filtered into their folders, and if I can convince everyone I care to hear from to sign everything, then I can shuffle off the rest. (This doesn't actually work, because pgp usage will not likely reach the level it would need to be for, say, my mom to use it. Unless, of course, it became mandatory or something.) One thing you'll find about mutt is that it leaves a lot of the features you might find in other mail applications to external programs. Mutt does not send mail itself. It depends on a mail transfer agent to do that. It also doesn't edit messages internally, it passes them to an editor. A notable exception is that mutt can read mail from POP/IMAP accounts instead of depending on fetchmail/getmail. I'm not sure how that snuck in. ;) Good luck with this. Mutt is pretty darn powerful, and configuration can be tricky, but the user base is pretty extensive and quite helpful (provided you've read through the manual already...[3]) Greg --- - [1] http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html [2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PGP-Basics/ [3] http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/
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