Re: About wrapping lines.

2002-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Jussi Ekholm quotation:
 
 I was just wondering, that is it possible for Mutt to wrap the lines
 before sending the message in the editor when replying? At least Slrn
 handles this, and it is quite nice feature indeed.

You don't want that anyway, you just think you do.

If your editor does the wrapping, you can fix it if it's broken.  If
Mutt does it, you're stuck; you'll find out the wrapping was broken when
you get the confused responses.


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Re: JAVA applet to run mutt via http

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  David T-G quotation:
 
 % yeah, but that's what he asked for. ;)
 
 It is?  He specifically said that he is limited to a web browser to get
 through the firewall.

Not his first question, his second.  I was replying to it; in fact, I
was replying to somebody's reply to that question, in which I don't
think they even quoted the first question.

It looked like he thought that a Java telnet applet would solve his
problem, and I was only addressing that.  It won't, given the parameters
he specified in his first question.

   - sit at a client with a web browser
   - get through the firewall looking like web traffic
   - log in on his box at home for interactive shell processing

Yes.  Hence a Java telnet applet won't work.


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Re: JAVA applet to run mutt via http

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  mikea quotation:
 
 Something to keep firmly in mind when talking about this, and 
 even _MORE_ firmly in mind if one is thinking about doing it at
 work, is that lots of places view circumventing the firewall as
 an indication that you need to work somewhere else.

In fact, since Perl was mentioned, we should keep in mind that Randal
Schwartz got convicted of a felony for bypassing Intel's firewall.
There's more than one side to the story, but the bottom line is make
sure your company allows what you want to do before you do it via their
network.

If they allow ssh, you're probably home free forwarding ports over it;
but if they only allow port 80, check and see if they mean we allow web
use only or we allow anything on port 80.


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Re: JAVA applet to run mutt via http

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  darren chamberlain quotation:
 * Marco Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-29 13:52]:
  Last but not least: what was that JAVA applet called anyway?
 
 I think you're looking for MindTerm, which google tells me is at
 http://www.appgate.com/ag.asp?template=productslevel1=product_mindterm.

However, FYI, a Java telnet isn't going to do what Marco wants.

If his company only lets http through the firewall, then running a Java
telnet on his home system will give him a nice Java applet running on
his side of the firewall, no more able to connect to his home system
than a telnet written in any other language.

Sounds like he needs some kind of http-based proxy, unless the firewall
is dumb enough to let non-http things through port 80, in which case I'd
recommend ssh.


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Re: JAVA applet to run mutt via http

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  David T-G quotation:
 
 Quick -- someone write a perl script that will interface between a local
 ssh session's filehandles and an incoming ssh stream!

I just figured run an ssh daemon on port 80 on his home box, since he
probably doesn't need a web server on it.  But if you wanna write that
bad boy, scratch that itch, baby!  :-)


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Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation:
 95% of all spam. I'm really quite impressed. However to rid my private
 inbox of that last 5% of spam I'd like to only accept messages from a
 list of addresses, maybe including mail that has made it into my inbox
 on previous occasions and addresses of people I've sent stuff to.
 
 Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Yes; with procmail, or with your MTA's configuration.

I think it's a really bad idea, however; how will mail make it into
your inbox on previous occasions any longer?  What about mailing lists?

What if it's somebody at your ISP sending you notification that you must
engage in some action or lose your account?

Whitelisting is horribly complicated to get right, and if you get it
wrong, it's guaranteed to bounce legitimate mail.


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Re: Search on mailboxes

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  David Collantes quotation:
 
 Is there a way to perform a search on all mailboxes, without entering any in 
 specific? I use maildirs and Mutt 1.5.0i from the CVS. Thanks!

sure:

man find

Pay special attention to the -exec flag.

Something like:

cd maildir
find . -exec grep -l stuff {} \;


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Re: Company MTA has broken PGP/MIME

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Dave Smith quotation:
 
 Can anyone think of a solution other than fetch/procmail (I'd like to keep
 my mail on the imap server if possible), or chainging the MTA setup?

Other than those?  Sure, write new code and patch Mutt.

Other than that, you're either going to have to fix the broken cause (the
MTA setup), or fix the broken symptom (the emails, by filtering and
editing them, I.E. fetchmail and procmail and [something]).

I'd butt my head against the MTA folks first, since that fixes the
problem for ALL users, not just you.  Good luck.


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Re: X-Header

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Nik Engel quotation:
 Hi ! 
 How can i set X-Headers of this type : 

To set X-Headers of any type, use the my_hdr command, which you will
find in the muttrc man page.

Blank X-Headers (which is what you requested) would be a standard case
of that.  Not sure why you want to set blank X-Headers, though.  :-)


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Re: X-Header

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Mike Schiraldi quotation:
  giving me the following result: 
  X-Uptime: 
  18:09:29 up 32 days,  5:40,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.08

Of course, it's a very silly flag to use, since it's so easy to fake.


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Re: PGP signature

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Rahul Rekapalli quotation:
 I enabled PGP signing in mutt, when i view the mail, mutt shows the
 PGP signature inline, but a couple of friends of mine who use Pine,
 asked me why my PGP signature was attached rather than being inline.
 Is there something that I have configured wrong? Please advise.

No, there's something they've configured wrong.  Tell them to read RFC
3156 and get back to you when their mailer supports it.


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Re: message/partial

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Patrik Wallstrom quotation:
 
  Pat, I couldn't find your key...  Is it known to be on a particular
  server?
 
 I know it is on http://www.keyserver.net/ and another server (forgot
 which).

Your key is on the common keyservers.  (BTW, keyserver.net has evidently
collapsed down to a single server in Belgium, so it's not a good
choice.)

However, your key isn't self-signed, so no OpenPGP-compliant software
will accept it.  There are security issues with accepting
non-self-signed keys.


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Re: mutt, pop, and HOWTOs (was Re: fork() ?)

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  David T-G quotation:
 
 I don't think we should bother with a fetchmail HOWTO just like we don't
 bother with a sendmail HOWTO, but *perhaps* pointers to web sites for
 fetchmail and getmail as well as sendmail, qmail, postfix, exim, ssmtp,
 and maybe a few others (or maybe only one or two, but I don't want to
 start a no, list MY favorite MTA! flame war :-) would cover the right
 amount of ground.

IMHO, list as many as you can think of, but only if they have free
licenses.

Which of the above are excluded by this is left as an exercise for the
reader, for obvious reasons.


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Re: Reply including headers

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  mstevenson quotation:
 
 Is it possible to include (quote) the headers for a message I'm replying to?

Yes.

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Re: fork() ?

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Simon White quotation:
 
 Can you not just do
 
 $ fetchmail (options) 
 $ mutt

Or, better:

fetchmail -d300
mutt


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Re: List-Reply

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Will Yardley quotation:
 
 how is mutt supposed to know which addresses are mailing lists and which
 aren't?

IMHO, if you hit list-reply and Mutt doesn't recognize a list, it
should assume you know what you're talking about, and pop up the To:
address as a yes/no default.  Then if you say no, it should cycle
through the Cc: addresses until you say yes or q.

Alternately, just do the To:, and ignore the Cc:, because people
shouldn't be Cc:ing lists.  But that may just be me.


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Re: PGP signature verification

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  David T-G quotation:
 
 Personally I hope it doesn't leave mutt-users unless someone (I volunteer)
 sets up a temporary mutt-and-gpg-verification-problems list to get to
 the bottom of it and keep me in the loop.  I certainly want to get it
 resolved.

When it is resolved, we want it in the archives, too.  Otherwise that
temporary list is gonna need permanent archives.


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Re: PGP signature verification

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Thorsten Haude quotation:
 
 * David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-04-16 15:30]:
 Maybe, but maybe not.  I don't think we've pinned it down to a not-mutt
 problem.  Frankly I don't know what the heck is going on.
 It's not Fetchmail. I use 5.9.11 now, which seems to be the latest
 version, but I cannot verify David's mail.

Well, it's not unusual to have an occasional unverifiable mail, but for
it to be so consistent for you, it almost has to be somewhere in your
MTA path, not your MUA, since nobody else is seeing it with this
frequency.

ALMOST has.  It could be Mutt, but I don't think anybody else is going
to find anything Mutt if they haven't yet.

Try making a copy of your mail spool, and then edit that copy to remove
everything but one of the messages you can't verify, then pump that
message through gpg and see what happens.  If it still doesn't verify,
it's not Mutt.


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Re: PGP signature verification

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  David T-G quotation:
 
 I tried this method, using my editor to write everything from the last
 ^From_ line down to the bottom of the folder out to a file, but couldn't
 get gpg to do anything with it:

Argh.  I forgot PGP/MIME.  That method I said will only work with inline
sigs.

Score one for The Old Way.  Sorry for the brainfart.


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Re: fork() ?

2002-04-15 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Nico Schottelius quotation:
 
 I am wondering why mutt has to be locked while G-taking pop mails.
 I think I still could work/send new mails while mutt does this work. 
 I also think that it would be senseful, if I get 500 messages, I could
 start to answer the first while recieving the last 400.
 
 So my question, why don't we easily fork() this process ?

fetchmail is what you want for that.


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Re: PGP signature verification

2002-04-15 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Thorsten Haude quotation:
 
 Received: from pop.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.142]
 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.8.0)
 for yooden@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:00:25 +0200 (CEST)

That's a really old fetchmail, with a lot of known bugs, including
problems with parsing usernames with spaces in them.  Try upgrading it,
and see if the problem persists.


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Re: PGP signature verification

2002-04-15 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Will Yardley quotation:
 
  And I cannot verify this one.
 
 perhaps it's time (past time???) to take this discussion off list?

Is this list no longer for solving Mutt-related problems?

Or is it just that you think no one else will possibly ever have this
problem, and only the people he'd communicate with off-list could
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Re: Newbie with mutt and fetchmail

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Nick Lozinsky quotation:
 
 I've installed fetchmail, it works, I've put it in the background as a
 process with the -d 30 arg, mutt seems to start up. The only way that
 I can read any messages in mutt designated to my ISP's mail server, is
 if I read the messages first with the mail command.
 
 What do I need to do in order to have mutt receive and display my
 messages from my server?

Either unset your spoolfile option in your muttrc and let Mutt figure
it out, or set it properly.

If you have a $MAIL environment variable set, it may be using that.


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Re: PGP signature verification

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Thorsten Haude quotation:
 
 * Aaron Schrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-04-15 00:38]:
 Add this one to the list I just can't verify. I cannot find any
 suspicious dots here.

Can you quote the headers from one you can't verify?  I want to see what
path it's taking to get to you, perhaps there's a broken MTA involved.


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Re: S/MIME

2002-04-14 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Thorsten Haude quotation:
 
 using S/MIME in this list, what might have been their reason? Is
 S/MIME better established with non-free software?

Exactly.


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Re: HTML Mail

2002-04-13 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  s. keeling quotation:
 
 spamcop's work, and hitting that last send reports bit.  Spamcop works
 great, except lynx tends to be the only browser that works well with
 their web server (Opera 5.0 is awful with it; Netscape is better; w3m

I have found the same thing; I just use Lynx via urlview, and it works
great.  You don't want to automate that anyway, it'd defeat the purpose
of feeding you the web page.  When they're more confident in
their defaults, they'll reopen the option for fast submissions.


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Re: Writing a memo to myself

2002-04-13 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Philip Mak quotation:
 
 Right now I'm doing m, pmakENTER, subjectENTER and then
 typing it. A side effect of this is that the memo ends up in my
 sent-mail folder too.

You could use a send-hook to turn off the fcc when sending to pmak.
Make sure to create a default send-hook turning it on first.

 Oh, is it a bug that when I press y to send a message, it won't let
 me send the message if no recipients are specified (but there's an
 Fcc: specified)?

No.


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Re: HTML Mail

2002-04-12 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  s. keeling quotation:
 
 One of the things driving this is I'd like to find a way to easily
 report spam to spamcop, which means I have to pass an ID and password.
 This is possible with lynx -auth=uname:passwd.  With w3m or links, it
 would be something like w3m http://uname:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/

Spamcop will give you an email address.  You forward the mails there,
and you can even make a Mutt alias to make it easy, so you just forward
them to spamcop.

Then they process it when the system load allows, and send you back an
URL to complete the process.  Much easier that trying to script a web
post, and has the advantage that you don't have to re-post if their
system load won't allow a submission at that moment.


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Re: HTML Mail

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Patrick quotation:
 
 Actually, the custon is and SHOULD-BE:  reply to list and ONLY CC to
 person if asked.  We certainly do not want to receive posts twich
 without requesting such action.

IMHO, it should be reply to list, and let the guy who refuses to join
the list use the archives, that's what they're there for.


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Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation:
 
 These big text files open fine with vim.  When I get home, I may have to fiddle with 
the From header to get things right.  But, this may work.

That'll be easy.  One line of Perl or shell, most likely.

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Re: Saving all attachments

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Andre Bonhote quotation:
 
 I recently received a mail with about 20 attached files. The sender
 didn't want to tar it, so I got them attached one by one.

IMHO, bounce it, and say give me a break, dude, use tar.


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Re: Confusion on PGP parts

2002-04-09 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  Magnus Therning quotation:
 
 So, my question:
 There seems to be quite some different ways to mark that a MIME part
 should be processed by pgp/gpg, multipart/(signed/encrypted),
 application/pgp, and some (e.g. kmail) relies on the body contents to
 find out. Which is the 'correct' way?

The short answer; the way you're doing it now.

The long answer can be found here:

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3156.txt


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Re: Outhouse on Mutt-Users?

2002-04-08 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Luke Ross said on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:57:44PM +0100:
 
 As regards FQDN, if you'll pay for it!  It's currently a dodgy NAT'd
 set-up.  The Received headers show this one up ;-)

So's mine, but I still have an FQDN.

Gotta learn to use the tools to your advantage.


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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Will Yardley said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:02:59PM -0800:
  
 taking the attitude of i'm right and the rest of the world is wrong
 only gets you so far... at least when you're already way outnumbered.

Look where it got the Internet.

Sticking to documented RFCs, instead of the defacto standards of AOL
and Compuserve and Fidonet, got us where we are today.

It's not I'm right and the rest of the world is wrong.  It's I'm one
man, the RFCs are readable by everybody.

Couple that with the fact that any mailer that is MIME-compliant can
deal with PGP/MIME messages properly, even if they don't have PGP, and the 
choice seems clear.

Ok, a lot of people are using an MUA that is *NOT* MIME-compliant; more
people were using Compuserve and Fidonet when RFC 821 was written,
to, and yet we stuck to our guns.  Three years later, AOL came along,
and we expected them to conform to RFCs if they wanted to talk to us.
For a while, they tried to avoid it, but in the end, standards won out.

RFC 1521 is 8.5 years old.  People who choose not to follow it are on
their own, by choice.  That's their right.  More power to 'em.  Glad so
many of 'em live in countries where they get to make stupid choices like
that.  That doesn't mean I have to violate standards to accomodate them.

I violate the standard in exactly one place; a mailing list where the
messages get nuked if they're MIME.  I remain there because I like the
list.  I sign my messages inline because it follows the rules and
annoys people, which may cause them to bitch to the moderator to allow
MIME.

Inline sigs, in my experience, annoy Outlook and Outlook Express users
even more than PGP/MIME sigs.  Outlook Express even has trouble with
S/MIME, which Microsoft supports!

Communication?  I think I'm communicating more to the OE users by making
them jump through hoops to read perfectly legitimate standard mail than
I would by allowing Microsoft to drive my choices intead of RFCs.




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:44:22PM -0700:
 
 ok, i checked the archives and what i found was that people were
 talking about dale's p_c_t patch.  that does not do what outlook is
 expecting w.r.t. attachments.

It does when I use it.  What did you put in your .muttrc to activate it?




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David Collantes said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:07:19AM -0500:
 I totally agree with you. _Communicate_, that is the key word.

You signed that with S/MIME, with which OE also has a problem, agreeing
with someone whose position was basically don't use PGP/MIME because
Outlook and Outlook Express have a problem with it.




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:29:16AM -0700:
 
 it is my understanding that what is necessary to activate it is the
 p_c_t variable which i have set to ask-no because in most cases i want
 to do pgp/mime but be able to pick traditional for my outlook people.

There's a better way, but more on that after we get your problem fixed.
Could you answer yes on a response to the list, so we can see what
you're sending out?

Also, are you getting any errors when you start Mutt?




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:39:42AM -0500:
 
 I wondered about this the last time but didn't jump in, but since I'm
 here now...  Peter, does $p_c_t work for you for normal messages?  I read
 you to say that it doesn't work the way outhouse expects for attachments,
 but I think that's a known limitation; Shawn, can you send an attachment
 so that LookOut! can read the whole message smoothly?

Yes.  There is more than one $p_c_t, and he said he was using the dw
patch, which is the one that works for Outlook.




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:58:21AM -0700:
 
 that is correct.  p_c_t works fine for a simple email message without
 any attachments; however, as soon as you add an attachment i think
 mutt figures you're gonna send mime anyway so why not do the pgp that
 way too. 

Ah; didn't realize that was the problem you were describing.  Yes,
that's a limitation of the patch.

That's what happens when you try to do something that isn't
standardized; different people do it differently.




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:01:18AM -0700:
 
 not sure what you mean here.  do you want me to send a simple email
 from outlook or mutt?  if mutt, does this suffice?  or do you mean an
 inline sig from mutt?  or...?

I meant an inline sig from Mutt, but it's moot now, since you gave some
more information that made the problem clear.




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:07:52AM -0500:
 
 So you can send an attachment to an Outlook user and have the whole thing
 be signed and that user can happily read and verify both parts.

No.  IMHO, Dave shouldn't bother making that work.  If you really need to
send an Outlook user a signed email and a patch, and he has to open both
the email and the patch seperately, well, sometimes Microsoft's
stupidity is painful for their users.  He should be thankful he doesn't
have to reboot.  :-)




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:29:57AM -0700:
 
 manner.  now, as we all know, msft isn't going to fix outlook so if i
 want to correspond securly with outlook users, i need to try and
 accomodate.  PITA but there it is.

Let me see if I get this straight:

This hypothetical person is capable of installing a PGP plugin for
Outlook, but isn't capable of using it to decrypt an attached file?

Doesn't it insinuate itself into the right-click menu?




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Re: OT: [TalkBiz] Who's deleting your email (fwd)

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Michael Elkins said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:29:56PM -0800:
 That's pretty much what yahoo and hotmail do.  They will place spam
 messages in a separate Spam folder so that the user can peruse through
 it in case something was blocked by accident.

Except, in Yahoo's case, if the spammer pays them.




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Re: syntax highlighting in mutt

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:56:14PM -0500:
 
 Well, yeah; the same as if you use -R.  But it's an editor that's simply
 in read-only mode, not a pager, and so it is a little clunkier to jump
 forward by whole pages (you can't just hit the space bar like you do with
 the rest of your mail messages).

Oh ye of little faith:

http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=121




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Re: Feature Request

2002-04-04 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Sven Guckes said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:39:43AM +0200:
 
 feature request denied.
 
   macro index c change-folder!

That breaks ? for list functionality.  It would be better to assign
it to another key:

macro index I change-folder!\r

Then get used to using I when you want it.




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-04 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:06:14PM -0700:
 
 a mime anyway so why not just add a pgp/mime part?  is it even
 possible to send an application/pgp message with an attachment?

No.  That's one reason inline signatures are evil.




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Re: gnupg signing w/ mutt

2002-04-04 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:49:15PM -0700:
 that this would be considered broken by today's standards.  i
 guess if i want mutt to handle things the same way for those of my
 recipients who have to use outlook, i'm going to have to fix mutt or
 has anyone already done this?

Yes.  There's a patch, and it's already in the latest CVS versions.

See the archives; it's been discussed several times in the last week,
and at least once today.




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Re: echo $EUID

2002-04-03 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Mark J. Reed said on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:35:25PM -0500:
 
 In cases where there was an even wider divergence between the
 BSD and System V commands (the ps(1) command being the most infamous
 example), you may find the BSD version in /usr/ucb (this is analogous to
 but reversed from the old SunOS case, where the System V versions were
 in /usr/5bin).

Don't assume, however, that BSD style necessarily is 100% the same
as GNU style.

ps being the example, yet again; the w option doesn't show as much stuff
as you can get with two ws on GNU ps.




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Re: echo $EUID

2002-04-03 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Mark J. Reed said on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:18:57AM -0500:

 You can also put two 'w's on /usr/ucb/ps and get the full command line of
 every process,

Nope; it has a cutoff after a certain number of characters, and there's
nothing you can do about it.

We ran into this problem when one of our developers wrote an application
on Linux that did a ps and looked for a string, when the process in
question was in an extremely long path and was run with the full path
name.  When he ported it to Solaris, it wouldn't work, even with
/usr/ucb/ps, because of the cutoff.

I suggested we install GNU ps, but nobody in management wanted to hear that.




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Re: pgp_create_traditional in 1.5.0

2002-04-02 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Thomas Roessler said on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:59:32PM +0200:
 OpenPGP specifies application/pgp, but that breaks some MUAs that 
 don't follow the OpenPGP RFC.
 
 Where does the OpenPGP RFC specify that?

Sorry, I mispoke; it was another standard that specified that, and it
has since been withdrawn, so I don't care enough to find out what it
was.  :-)




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Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Dave Smith said on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 05:33:36PM +0100:
 
 You could succumb to the non-standards-following world and use the
 pgp_create_traditional variable.  There are also other ways of signing

My two cents:

Succumb.  Inline sigs are annoying, and when you get a complaint, you
can say well, if the list admin would allow standards-compliant
sigs, you wouldn't see all that garbage in the messages.  Complain to
him, not me..




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Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:37:49AM -0700:
 
 just wondering why the non-standards-following option contains the word
 traditional.

Because usage of PGP predates the establishment of standards.

 helpfull and it sort of relates to mutt...what is the accepted
 method for signing keys?  i have heard everything from don't sign a key
 unless you got it on a floppy from the person and checked his/her id to
 if the fingerprint in the signature matches, signing is ok.

If you're using GnuPG, see the lsign option.

If you're signing the key because you trust it, but aren't willing to
put your name on the line to vouch for it, local-sign (lsign) it.

If you are willing to put your reputation on the line as proclaiming
the validity of the key, sign it, and send the owner a signed copy.  Don't
do that unless you're sure it's legit; and email ain't sure.




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Re: M$ Outhouse E. for UNIX

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:58:17PM +0100:
 
 My mistake. Same here. Solaris doesn't like the '-s' switch for
 hostname. So I have to use 'hostname | cut ...' the get the short form.

uname -n

Works on both Linux and Solaris.




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Re: gpg-key probs

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:25:20PM +0100:
 
 ... but it doesn't help at all if people don't submit their key because
 of paranoia.

What's most annoying are the folks who not only don't submit their
key, but they also don't put it on their web page, or they don't
put a link in their sigline.

I know one person who has a demonstrated abundance of clue, but his
sigline says finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my public key, but foo.bar
doesn't accept finger...




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Re: gpg-key probs

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:02:23PM +0200:
 Hi,
 
 On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:07:58:PM -0500 ShRen McMahon wrote:
^

Is that a stylistic choice, or is your config broken?




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Re: Irony getting in the way (Was: Re: ignore...)

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:20:32PM +0200:
 
 It may sound funny, but I really saw some Linux guys talking about what
 would be necessary to replace a kernel 'on the fly'. Not that it does
 make lots of sence or is extraordinary usefull, but to some of them
 uptime is all that matters...

It'd be easier to just make /proc/uptime writable...

(Yes, I'm aware that requires a code change, not just chmod.  Every
time I say this I get some idiot pointing this out to me, like I didn't
know it.)




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Re: X-Mailer header

2002-03-31 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:34:59PM -0500:
 
 ObTopic: I personally feel that X-Mailer should be available just like
 every X-anything-else, but I don't care much more than that.

Any header that's defined in a standard should be controlled, but
X-Mailer is not defined in a standard.  It shouldn't be controlled.




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Compressed patch problems

2002-03-31 Thread Shawn McMahon

I applied the compressed folders patch, and it seemed to work.

mutt -v shows:

Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13)
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Linux 2.4.9-31 (i586) [using ncurses 5.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  
+USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
-USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  +USE_SSL  -USE_SASL  
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
+HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  -COMPRESSED  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  
++HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
ISPELL=/usr/bin/ispell
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
MAILPATH=/var/mail
PKGDATADIR=/usr/share/mutt
SYSCONFDIR=/usr/etc
EXECSHELL=/bin/sh
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED].
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.

patch-1.3.28.rr.compressed.1
patch-1.3.28.dw.pgp-traditional.2



At the end of my config, I have:

# gzip
open-hook \\.gz$ gzip -cd %f  %t
close-hook \\.gz$ gzip -c %t  %f
append-hook \\.gz$ gzip -c %t  %f
#
# bzip2
open-hook \\.bz2$ bzip2 -cd %f  %t
close-hook \\.bz2$ bzip2 -c %t  %f
append-hook \\.bz2$ bzip2 -c %t  %f


However, when I run mutt, I get:

Error in /home/smcmahon/.muttrc, line 282: open-hook: unknown command
Error in /home/smcmahon/.muttrc, line 283: close-hook: unknown command
Error in /home/smcmahon/.muttrc, line 284: append-hook: unknown command
Error in /home/smcmahon/.muttrc, line 287: open-hook: unknown command
Error in /home/smcmahon/.muttrc, line 288: close-hook: unknown command
Error in /home/smcmahon/.muttrc, line 289: append-hook: unknown command
source: errors in /home/smcmahon/.muttrc

WTF?




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Re: X-Mailer header

2002-03-31 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David Collantes said on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 08:54:39AM -0500:
 
  Any header that's defined in a standard should be controlled, but
  X-Mailer is not defined in a standard.  It shouldn't be controlled.
 
 What standards are you talking about?

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/

 There are *not* standards.

There are plenty of standards; however, X-Mailer is not defined in one,
as I clearly stated above.

 And even if 
 they were, why to offer the possibility to have custom headers (my_hdr) is 
 they are not to be controlled?

Controlled = you can't change it, because an RFC defines it
Uncontrolled = you can change it with my_hdr because no RFC defines it

Hope this clears up the confusion.




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Re: X-Mailer header

2002-03-31 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David Collantes said on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:05:22AM -0500:
 
 :- RFC's are *not* standards. Who ever told you so?

sigh

RFCs are not Standards, but they are standards.

If you don't think so, stop using MIME, because it hasn't been adopted
as a Standard yet, despite being a standard.

 College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida

Don't make me drive over there and smack you; it's only about 20 minutes
from Maitland.  :-)




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Re: gpg multible keyrings

2002-03-30 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Michael Tatge said on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:43:12PM +0100:
 
 I'd like to have an extra keyring for this list.

What problem are you trying to solve?




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OT: OS definition thread

2002-03-29 Thread Shawn McMahon

Just to throw a little fuel on the fire:

Look in the Sun training catalog, at how they define the products
themselves.

Solaris 8 Operating Environment.

Look at their web page:

http://www.sun.com/solaris/

They call it the same thing.  Then do a uname -a on a Solaris 8 system:

SunOS chtsjs01 5.8 Generic_108528-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

SunOS 5.8 is a component of the Solaris operating environment.  Guess
what OS stands for?  SunOS 5.8 is the KERNEL, not the operating
environment.  If they were so inclined and appropriately licensed, Debian 
could do a distribution with the SunOS kernel, just like they do with 
the Hurd.  Hurd is an OS kernel; Debian is a distribution.  SunOS is
an OS kernel; Solaris is an Operating Environment, I.E. a distribution.
Linux is an OS kernel; Debian is a distribution, I.E. an operating
environment.

The parallels aren't a concidence, that's how you build a working system
out of an OS.

Things like ps and bash aren't part of the OS, even if you personally
can't get any use out of the system without them.  It is possible to
build a system with nothing but a Linux OS and no filesystems, that
accomplishes useful work.  The other bits make it more useful, but are
not required.

This isn't my opinion, this is basic computer science.  What are they
teaching you kids in those schools these days?




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Re: OT: OS definition thread

2002-03-29 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David Champion said on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:58:32PM -0600:
 No, not really. It's marketing.

The definition of OS isn't marketing, it's Computer Science.  It's
been presented.  It agrees with what I said.  Get over it.




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Re: Saving encrypted

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Magnus Bodin said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:29:44AM +0100:
 
 Wouldn't it be a better solution to keep the whole sent-mail-folder
 encrypted to myself using the open/close-hook-thingies in the
 compressed-folders-patch? 

Probably be easier to put ~/Mail on a cfs filesystem.




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Re: gpg-key probs (Was: Re: Tag or delete...)

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Martin Karlsson said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:36:32PM +0100:
  
 And I get the same as David. I use 'keyserver pgp.mit.edu'.
 But you should only have to upload to _one_ keyserver, right?

There's more than one keyserver network.

However, it's easier to ask somebody what server they use, and then
figure out what network it's on, than to ask them what network it's on.

They can get the answer to the one question from their options file; the
other requires clue.  Not saying anyone involved in this discussion
doesn't have clue, just saying the general case.




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Re: Keyserver Bug (was: Re: Tag or delete by date or age)

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what mike ledoux said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:27:37AM -0500:
 
 and hand out an invalid key.  This is a known problem in the keyserver
 code.  You can get a *valid* copy of my key from:
 
 http://www.volta.dyndns.org/~mwl/pgpkey.asc

Yep, worked peachy.  Thanks.

 As stated in the headers of every message I send.

Headers are for information for machines.  Information humans are
expected to read belongs in the body.

Many mailers don't show headers beyond the crucial ones.  Mutt lets
you configure that, I configure it that way.

 Of course, the signing key provided by the keyservers is still OK, as
 this problem only affects the encryption subkey(s), so you still should've
 been able to verify the signature.

Couldn't get the sig automatically.  But now that I have added it manually,
all is well.




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Re: Word and RTF attachments

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:11:12AM -0800:
 always be right.  But I have recieved some email where an RTF file
 has a '.doc' extension and an 'application/msword' mime type (probably
 because of the extension).  Other than educating the other user,
 what is best way to handle this?  I just want to dump the file

Procmail filter that autobounces either.




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Re: gpg-key probs (Was: Re: Tag or delete...)

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:14:23PM -0500:
 
 Are there just one or two, or are there a bunch, or does anyone really
 know?  Do the servers in a given network synchronize with each other, or
 do even they have problems?

I think there are a few, and some of them synchronize with others.

Beyond that, I dunno.

Generally they're clustered around a given piece of keyserver software,
so you can probably track them somewhat that way.




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Re: hiding the pgp sig completely from view?

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Sven Guckes said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:53:12AM +0100:
 
 and i wonder whether there is a
 way to make mutt's reply command
 use the filtered text for quoting..

Ok, you want them to vanish for viewing, and vanish for quoting.

Why is it that you don't use procmail to strip them?  When is it that
you want them to still be there?




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Re: Why is http address attachet to header?

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Patrik Modesto said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:24:42AM +0100:
 I create new message, then to the first empty line under header i write
 http://www.something.com and send this mail. This address is send as a
 part of email's header and body of this mail is empty. Why? Is this
 correct?

The header is everything up to the first empty line.  You're placing
text immediately after the header, thus making it part of the header.

So, that is correct behavior from the mailer, and incorrect behavior
from the user.  :-)




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Re: M$ Outhouse E. for UNIX

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:31:07PM +0100:
 
 Just logged into a solaris box. Having set my prompt to 'user@machine'
 it says that only root may run 'uname'. My response: 'exit'.

Did you by any chance have a -S in that uname call?

Because that's the only uname function that Solaris reserves for root,
and rightly so.  Unless the administrator of that box did something.




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Re: M$ Outhouse E. for UNIX

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Matthew D. Fuller said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 06:49:32AM -0600:
 
 I think he actually means 'hostname', not 'uname'; hostname, on any sane
 system, displays the hostname when called with no args, and tries to set
 it (requiring root at THAT point) when it has args.  Solaris assumes that
 you're always trying to set it, even to nothing.

What version of Solaris are you smoking?

sm364611-chtsjs01 hostname
chtsjs01
sm364611-chtsjs01 id
uid=43122(sm364611) gid=10(staff)
sm364611-chtsjs01 uname -a
SunOS chtsjs01 5.8 Generic_108528-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

 Solaris' braindamage in a number of ways.  For instance, on every OTHER
 OS (including pre-Solaris-renaming SunOS, HP/UX 9, NeXT Mach), I can use
 id -u to get the EUID.  Solaris?
 setenv EUID `id | sed s/[a-z\(\)\=]//g | awk '{print $1}'`

sm364611-chtsjs01 /usr/xpg4/bin/id -u
43122

(which is explained in man id)




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Re: M$ Outhouse E. for UNIX

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:28:25AM -0500:
 
 Yeah; that was a very funny time.  Too bad NT5 was renamed to Win2000 and
 announced just ONE DAY before the fantastic announcement of Solaris 7,
 the Operating System Rushed Out The Door In Time To Have A Higher
 Revision Number Than That Crap From Microsoft (but not in time to be
 complete, which is why 8 came out so soon after without even an attempt
 at 7.1).  There were a *lot* of people at Sun who were pissed off!

There won't be any .1 releases, because Solaris 8 is a marketing term
for an environment that includes SunOS 5.8.  Technically, the OS is
SunOS 5.8.  Sun marketting doesn't use that name, however, because they
don't refer to the OS, only to the environment.

Similarly for Solaris 7.

That's why Solaris 9 is about to come out, with no 8.1.  However, you
are correct that 7 sucked.  :-)

Think of it as like a Linux distribution.  Linux is the OS, RedHat or
Debian is the distribution.  Saying Solaris is like saying Debian,
only slower and less free.  :-)




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Re: pgp_create_traditional in 1.5.0

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:55:08AM -0500:
 
 % has been changed so that application/pgp is no longer used (although
 % there's an x-mutt-action=pgp-sign flag in the content/type so that mutt
 % knows it's signed).  those changes are from Thomas Roessler.
 
 I was unaware that it was broken.  Can you (or someone) tell us whether
 this functionality is in 1.3.28?

Only with a patch.  Although I'm using a patch that causes the same
behavior, IMHO, core Mutt shouldn't.  It should be configurable whether
you'll use application/pgp or not, because there's an RFC in question
here.  OpenPGP specifies application/pgp, but that breaks some MUAs that
don't follow the OpenPGP RFC.

The usual workaround is text/plain, but that needs to be user-configurable
so that people who WANT to use OpenPGP (I don't, I either use text/plain
or PGP/MIME) can.

As I said, one of the patches for that just makes it text/plain always,
and another makes it configurable.  I'm using the former by choice.




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Re: Tag or delete by date or age

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what mike ledoux said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:29:20PM -0500:

gpg: requesting key 57C3430B from wwwkeys.us.pgp.net ...
gpg: key 57C3430B: invalid subkey binding
gpg: key 57C3430B: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature



Sign your key and re-submit it.




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Re: Tag or delete by date or age

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:40:46PM -0500:
 
 % Sign your key and re-submit it.
 
 Better check what you have, too.

If my key wasn't signed, GPG wouldn't accept it.




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Re: Tag or delete by date or age

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:55:19PM -0500:
 
 No, no -- I meant that you had better check your copy of his key; as
 shown, it works fine for me.

I don't have a copy of his key; GPG attempted to import it from the
keyserver, but the one on the keyserver didn't have a self-signature,
so it refused to import it.

Hence, he should sign his key and resubmit it to the keyserver.




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Re: M$ Outhouse E. for UNIX

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Ricardo SIGNES said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:40:44PM -0500:
  
 Except that Linux is only the kernel.  Linux + GNU + some other files and
 configuration is the OS.  That, plus some applications is the distribution.

You're wrong.




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Re: hiding the pgp sig completely from view?

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Sven Guckes said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:37:11AM +0100:
 
 but - is there a way I can just *hide*
 the pgp sig *completely* from view?

Do you still want to verify the sigs, or not?

If not, you could strip them with procmail.




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Re: mailers with scripting/setup language

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:04:14AM +0100:
 
 Just wondering why 1524 is so important to you...

You lost me.  To the best of my knowledge, I have never discussed
RFC1524 in this or any other mailing list, prior to this exchange.

RFC1521 is important to me because 99.99% of MUAs on the Internet
profess to comply with it, and because the most popular one doesn't
actually do so, and thus it's users give me flack about their broken
mailer's inability to read my messages.

I've recently decided that it's insane for me to jump through hoops set by
a company whose products I don't even purchase anymore, when I'm
following 8.5-year-old standards.

Ok, it's not a standard standard yet, but that argument is rendered
moot when you stick a MIME header in your mails, which Outlook and
Outlook Express do.  That constitutes a stipulation to the standard
as written.  If they don't want to follow the standard, they can put
X-MSMIME or something.  What they're doing now is false advertising,
and it's affecting me.  I have to choose between spending a portion of
my time responding to complaints, or ditching functionality.

I choose to apportion that time so that as much of it as possible goes to
talking to people with clue (like you), and as little as possible to
people without clue who won't understand even if I wave the RFCs in their
face.

Karsten and I are working on something in that vein.




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Re: mailbox question

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Simon White said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:55:29AM +:
 
 I didn't think this list could be posted to by non members. I am now
 going to have to find your address and copy-paste it up to the CC line.

No, you don't have to.  You choose to.

Many people wouldn't.

IMHO, it's incredibly rude to request a private response in a mailing
list.  Telling people please help me, and please jump through this
hoop to do it is wrong.

Unless his question was I can't seem to read messages in the Mutt list,
but my non-list mail works fine.




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Re: Mail is not reaching destination

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Sven Guckes said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:31:52PM +0100:
 
 like i said:  mutt is *not* for everyone

All users suck.  mutt is for users who suck less.




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Re: M$ Outhouse E. for UNIX

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Simon White said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:41:05PM +:
 
 Text based rules, but in Solaris you are stuck with CDE anyway, it's not
 worth shit without CDE.

I've had luck in the past with GNOME, and evidently Sun doesn't
totally disagree, since they're moving to GNOME as the standard
environment.




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Re: mailbox question

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Matthias Weiss said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:26:43PM +0100:
 What do I gain from this when I have 3 mailing list on one and another 4 lists
 on the other account?

The ability to use mailing lists to help you solve problems without
committing ettiquette errors that cause those who know the answers to
your problems to flame you and then refuse to help you, for one thing.




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Re: ignore command does not seem to work

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rob 'Feztaa' Park said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:59:37PM -0700:
 
 [0] This officially means that every single binary on my entire system
 is GPL'd ;)

You don't have ps?  What are you using instead?




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Re: ignore command does not seem to work

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rob 'Feztaa' Park said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:29:08PM -0700:
 
 I don't use ps. Or any replacements.

Ok.  Do you use vim?




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Re: ignore command does not seem to work

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Will Yardley said on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:02:10PM -0800:
 
 /home/william/procps-2.0.7/ps
 ladd% head COPYING 
   GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

You quoted it right there; it's not GPL, it's LGPL.

I was yanking Rob's chain, because he's an evil bastard.  :-)




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Re: mailers with scripting/setup language

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:12:41AM +0100:
 
 Not that I know, but it is quite dangerous to talk about Outlook in the
 context of mail clients.

Oh, it is a mail client, it's just not an Internet mail client.

At the very least, it doesn't read RFC1521-compliant mails as
recommended in the standard.  That's why I gave up trying to
accommodate people who run it.  The standard has been there for 8.5
years now, they can catch up or stop bitching.




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Re: setting content type in email header with mutt

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Donna Koenig said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:39:39AM -0500:
 
 Situation is:
 We want to send out email that is html, but for those who only
 accept or access text email, we wnat them to be able to open the email
 also.

OK, let me see if I get this right:

You want to send out HTML email, and forge the headers so that it
goes to people who have made a deliberate choice not to receive
HTML email?

Anybody who helps you do that is evil.

Include a text/plain attachment; that's what the RFCs, common sense, and
ethics would call for.




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Re: mailers with scripting/setup language

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rocco Rutte said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:58:17PM +0100:
 
  At the very least, it doesn't read RFC1521-compliant mails as
  recommended in the standard.
 
 Which has status informational only.

Ok, first, wrong, it's standards-track, not informational.

However, it *IS* the MIME standard, and they claim their emailer is
a MIME emailer, so they can't get out of violating a standard by
saying we support it and then it's not a standard when it's
inconvenient.

MIME-compliant means RFC1521-compliant, period.




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Re: PGP signing (newbie)

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rob 'Feztaa' Park said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:31:36PM -0700:
 
 Well, it sounds an awful lot like Jessy to me, which is a decidedly
 female name in Canada. I've never heard of a man named Jessy ;)

Jesse Owens.  Jesse Ventura.

Insist on the same spelling?  Ok.  Jessy Dixon.  Canadian race car
driver Jessy Cohoon.




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Re: ignore command does not seem to work

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rob 'Feztaa' Park said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:44:26PM -0700:
 
 Besides, I'm only doing it to Incredimail users. I mean, if they want to
 accost me with tons of useless X- headers, I shouldn't have to put up with
 them (the headers, not the people) :P

If you want elegant:

ignore *
unignore date from: reply-to to cc subject list user-agent x-mailer 

I mean, who really cares about all that other crapola?

Most people could go the extra bit and snatch user-agent and x-mailer
out of there.

And you can always hit h if you wanna see the crapola.




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Re: ignore command does not seem to work

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rob 'Feztaa' Park said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:25:23PM -0700:
 
 I'd rather just rip off all the useless headers with an elegant 3-line
 procmail recipie than have to hide them all with 10 or 20 lines of
 ignore statements.

You can have it both ways; use Procmail to prepend X-Nuke at the
beginning of all the bad lines, then ignore X-Nuke.

Then you can always see them if you want to.




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Re: ignore command does not seem to work

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rob 'Feztaa' Park said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:05:45PM -0700:
 
 That brings us back to the first problem though: How do I ignore X-Nuke
 without ignoring the other X- headers? (without using the huge mess
 david posted).

ignore received x-nuke




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Re: ignore command does not seem to work

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Rob 'Feztaa' Park said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:34:48PM -0700:
  ignore received x-nuke
 
 There are other headers I want to hide though.

When I said have procmail prepend all the bad headers, I meant every
header you'd like to hide.

 The only headers that I _want_ to see are done with an unignore in my
 .muttrc, immediately following an ignore *. x-nuke wouldn't work in
 that situation, and to prepend x-nuke to _everything_ that I want to
 hide is just out of the question. Too much work.

What work?  You do it one time, procmail does it after that.

 What I have now with formail working against incredimail _works_, that's
 the point. It's exactly what I want.

Well, now, this is the Open Source world, where our motto is if it ain't
broke, fix it.  Didn't you get the memo?  :-)




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Re: Saving encrypted

2002-03-25 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Alan Batie said on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:03:24PM -0800:
 first place.  I discovered the fcc_clear option, which saves the message
 unencrypted and have been living with that, but what I *really* want is to
 save them encrypted to *me*.

Mutt doesn't do that, but PGP does.

In GnuPG, you'd add the following to your ~/.gnupg/options file:

encrypt-to-self

PGP should have something similar.  If not, it sucks.  :-)

Also check the archives for a conversation YESTERDAY on this very
subject, where I talk about the security tradeoffs in doing this.




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Re: Encrypting my outgoing messages to myself for fcc

2002-03-24 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Robert Conde said on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:20:46PM -0500:
 
 When I send a pgp encrypted message  to someone, I can't read it in my
 fcc folder.   I set the fcc_clear  variable so that the  FCC is stored
 unencrypted.  I read in some FAQ that it's possible to configure Mutt

Before you decide to do this, keep in mind the tradeoff you're making.

If someone breaks your PGP secret keyring passphrase, or gets a court
order to make you cough it up, they'll be able to read every encrypted message
you've ever sent.  For some people that's acceptable, for some it isn't.




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ignore/unignore

2002-03-24 Thread Shawn McMahon

Look at the man page; it doesn't say anything about the order of ignore
or unignore statements.  It just says unignore is a list of exceptions to
the ignore statement(s).

That's the precedence; unignores are exceptions, they take precedence over
ignores no matter what.

man muttrc




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Re: PGP signing (newbie)

2002-03-24 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Jussi Ekholm said on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:09:42PM +0200:
 
 Ah well, I've decided not to use signed mails in mailing lists if
 there isn't any reason for me to do it. What matters, is, that PGP
 works with my Mutt - whole other thing is, if I use it... ;-)

The same reasons for doing so in private mail apply to lists.

The same reasons for not doing so in lists apply to private mail.

What you do or don't do is your choice, but it's silly to bother turning on
the capability at all if you aren't going to use it.




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Re: PGP signing (newbie)

2002-03-24 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Thorsten Haude said on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:26:53PM +0100:
 There are several things different between broadcasts and
 point-to-point connection, as you sure know.

Yes.  For instance, there are far more people who would be impacted by
a forgery.  There are also far more people who would benefit from
exposure to cryptographic signatures.

Also, there's a longer distribution channel, and thus more opportunities
for forgery.

So, you're right; there's MORE reason to sign in lists than in private
mail.  Thanks for the correction.




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