PGP key selection (Was Re: automatically changing email address...)
On Wednesday, 25.10.2000 at 21:24 -0400, Josh Huber wrote: ... Another (completely unrelated) question I had was regarding the PGP support. I've been using it for a while now, but I'd like to have some way to select a key for encryption automatically. Well, it does already do that, but I still get a list of all the uids listed for the GPG key. Selecting any of them works because gpg automatically selects the right key for encryption, but automatically having this done would be nice. I immagine this could be done with a macro, but is there a cleaner solution? I've posted about this in the past, and I don't think I've ever seen any suggestions, macros, or workarounds for this problem ... Even if you specify the key-ID to use in a "pgp-hook", it _still_ gives you this prompt, which seems bizarre ... Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK PGP signature
Re: PGP key selection (Was Re: automatically changing email address...)
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:51:42AM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: I've posted about this in the past, and I don't think I've ever seen any suggestions, macros, or workarounds for this problem ... Even if you specify the key-ID to use in a "pgp-hook", it _still_ gives you this prompt, which seems bizarre ... Yes, I've gone so far as to wrap the output of gpg so that only one key show up as selectable, but most of the time mutt segfaulted. I didn't have enough time to look into it, so I'm not sure what I was missing from the gpg output format to make mutt happy. ttyl, -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/6B21489A 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A PGP signature
Re: automatically changing email address...
Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 25 Oct 2000: I'm using the following rules to differentiate between internal work email and external email. I'd like however, to be able to bind a key (for example, 'M') to mean send but always use my work email address as the From: header. Well, here's a suggested solution: 1) put all your send-hook commands in a separate muttrc-style file 2) make "M" into a macro that - does "unhook send-hook" - sets up your From header (my_hdr From ... or set from=...) Then you also need some method to restore the settings. The easiest solution would be to set up a macro that just reads the send-hook file again, and undoes whatever settings you did in the M-macro. But that's not automatic. If you want to automatically restore the settings once that email has been finished, it does get quite tricky. There's no way to make a macro that will "do this, then send email, and after the 'send email' step has completed, do this". But, there is only a limited amount of ways you can get out of the compose menu. You just have to create macros for all the possible exit keys in the compose menu, that restore your usual setup. They could also un-macro all the compose menu bindings, although that's strictly speaking not necessary (it won't hurt to leave them in every time). I hope this helps, Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / It really is just the little things that bug a person.
Re: automatically changing email address...
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:06:31PM +0300, Mikko H?nninen wrote: Well, here's a suggested solution: 1) put all your send-hook commands in a separate muttrc-style file 2) make "M" into a macro that - does "unhook send-hook" - sets up your From header (my_hdr From ... or set from=...) Then you also need some method to restore the settings. The easiest solution would be to set up a macro that just reads the send-hook file again, and undoes whatever settings you did in the M-macro. But that's not automatic. Hmm, ok... How about I just make it always set the values depending on what I press: bind index Y mail bind index E reply macro index m ":source ~/.mutt/autoselect^mY" macro index M ":source ~/.mutt/workselect^mY" macro index r ":source ~/.mutt/autoselect^mE" macro index R ":source ~/.mutt/workselect^mE" ~/.mutt/autoselect: source ~/.mutt/send-hook.default # send hooks to automatically select From: header ~/.mutt/workselect: source ~/.mutt/send-hook.default send-hook . my_hdr From: ... more brute force, but less of a pain to implement? (haven't tried it yet though) If you want to automatically restore the settings once that email has been finished, it does get quite tricky. There's no way to make a macro that will "do this, then send email, and after the 'send email' step has completed, do this". But, there is only a limited amount of ways you can get out of the compose menu. You just have to create macros for all the possible exit keys in the compose menu, that restore your usual setup. They could also un-macro all the compose menu bindings, although that's strictly speaking not necessary (it won't hurt to leave them in every time). This, I think, would be more trouble than it's worth... -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/6B21489A 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A PGP signature
Re: automatically changing email address...
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:06:31PM +0300, Mikko H?nninen wrote: [snip] Here's what I ended up doing: # ~/.mutt/sending bind index Y mail bind index E reply bind index H group-reply macro index m ":source ~/.mutt/autoselect^mY" macro index M ":source ~/.mutt/workselect^mY" macro index r ":source ~/.mutt/autoselect^mE" macro index R ":source ~/.mutt/workselect^mE" macro index g ":source ~/.mutt/autoselect^mH" macro index G ":source ~/.mutt/workselect^mH" # ~/.mutt/autoselect source ~/.mutt/send-hook.default # work email (used internally) send-hook (missioncriticallinux|mclinux|mclx).com my_hdr 'From: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]' send-hook (missioncriticallinux|mclinux|mclx).com 'set signature=~/.mutt/sig.work' # mailing list setup send-hook '~t debian-' my_hdr 'From: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook '~t mutt-' my_hdr 'From: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ~/.mutt/workselect source ~/.mutt/send-hook.default # work email (used internally) send-hook . my_hdr 'From: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]' send-hook . 'set signature=~/.mutt/sig.work' # ~/.mutt/send-hook.default unhook send-hook # gpg defaults send-hook . 'set pgp_autosign=yes' send-hook . 'set pgp_autosign=yes' send-hook . 'set pgp_replysignencrypted=yes' send-hook . 'set pgp_replyencrypt=yes' send-hook . 'set pgp_replysignencrypted=yes' send-hook . 'set pgp_replysign=yes' # nightshade email (default) send-hook . my_hdr From: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook . 'set signature=~/.mutt/sig.nightshade' # don't use a sig or gnupg when dealing with listservs... send-hook majordomo|listserv 'set pgp_autosign=no; set pgp_replysign=no' send-hook majordomo|listserv 'set signature=""; set attribution=""' Works great so far... now for that pgp problem... -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/6B21489A 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A PGP signature
Re: automatically changing email address...
Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 26 Oct 2000: How about I just make it always set the values depending on what I press: That would work. macro index m ":source ~/.mutt/autoselect^mY" You don't need to have a separate binding for the mail-function to Y, you can just put "mail" instead there. You will also have to remember to define macros for the pager, but I guess you know that. :-) more brute force, but less of a pain to implement? (haven't tried it yet though) I'd say that's a better solution actually, than what I suggested. :-) Just don't forget the unhook's where appropriate. Not that it won't work without them, but send-hooks accumulate, so after writing a few emails you will have quite a lot of various send-hooks defined, most of which override previous send-hook definitions. Not that I've ever seen Mutt slow down because of using too many send-hooks, but it's a good practice anyway to clean up after yourself. :-) Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / "Scotty, beam us aboard." "Aye, sir. Will a 2x4 do?"
Re: automatically changing email address...
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 05:05:58PM +0300, Mikko H?nninen wrote: You don't need to have a separate binding for the mail-function to Y, you can just put "mail" instead there. Ah, ok. That's good to know. Definately better than binding the extra keys as I have been doing. You will also have to remember to define macros for the pager, but I guess you know that. :-) Actually, thanks for reminding me. :) of which override previous send-hook definitions. Not that I've ever seen Mutt slow down because of using too many send-hooks, but it's a good practice anyway to clean up after yourself. :-) Yeah, I've been very happy with mutt's performance on dealing with very large mailboxes, especially while threading the messages. thanks again, -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/6B21489A 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A PGP signature
automatically changing email address...
I've got a question for you guys, I'm using the following rules to differentiate between internal work email and external email. I'd like however, to be able to bind a key (for example, 'M') to mean send but always use my work email address as the From: header. # nightshade email (default) send-hook . my_hdr From: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook . 'set signature=~/.mutt/sig.nightshade' # work email (used internally) send-hook (missioncriticallinux|mclinux|mclx).com my_hdr 'From: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]' send-hook (missioncriticallinux|mclinux|mclx).com 'set signature=~/.mutt/sig.work' That works, but how could I override this (for just one message)? Another (completely unrelated) question I had was regarding the PGP support. I've been using it for a while now, but I'd like to have some way to select a key for encryption automatically. Well, it does already do that, but I still get a list of all the uids listed for the GPG key. Selecting any of them works because gpg automatically selects the right key for encryption, but automatically having this done would be nice. I immagine this could be done with a macro, but is there a cleaner solution? Thanks, -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/6B21489A 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A PGP signature
