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On Monday, September 24 at 12:50 AM, quoth P.M.:
> Thank you very much for your reply.
You're quite welcome.
> I apologize for not being too quick in grasping the advice you just
> gave - being very new to this stuff - so please be patient with
> me...
No problem.
> set pgp_sign_as=0x31577172
> set pgp --encrypt-to=0x31577172
>
> What would seem elegant to me is to replace those key
> values with a $VARIABLE that can be changed on the fly
> by changing a single value in the macro sequences I
> use to change return address, hostname, realname, Bcc
> field, etc. for each email address I have.
No, that would be silly. $pgp_sign_as *is* a variable that can be
changed on the fly, so adding another one would be an extra
redirection.
Here's how you'd set it in a macro:
macro index m '<enter-command>set pgp_sign_as=0x31577172<enter><mail>'
I can mix that into your existing send-mail macro if you include
that in your message.
>> No, but you need to have the sign-as included in
>> your pgp_*_command
>> settings. For example, my pgp_encrypt_sign_command
>> includes:
>>
>> %?a?-u %a?
>
> You lost me there... how that works goes beyond what I
> am able to grasp at this time...
Many mutt string variables that support formatting strings (such as
%a) also support conditional formatting strings. Generally, if you
include %a in a pgp command variable, it will be replaced by the
sender of the email (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], or whatever you've
configured your pgp_sign_as to be). Thus, if you always set
pgp_sign_as to something, you can put "-u %a" into your pgp command
string (according to the gpg manual, -u means "sign as this user") and
when "-u %a" is parsed by mutt, it becomes "-u [EMAIL PROTECTED]", or
something similar. Now then, to be generic, to take care of situations
when pgp_sign_as may not be set to anything, we have a conditional. A
conditional format string is in the format "%? formatletter ? iftrue ?",
in other words, the string "%?a?foo?" means "if %a would produce
anything, then use 'foo', otherwise ignore this". So, "%?a?-u %a?"
means "if %a is would produce anything, then use '-u %a'".
Does that make sense?
~Kyle
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-- St. Francis of Assisi
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