Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-23 Thread Daniel Kollar
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:14:09PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: Did you try to change the content-type of these octet-streams to application/pgp? With the more recent mutt versions, you can comfortably do this from within mutt. Really? I'm using mutt 1.2i . What version do I need to do

Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-23 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Daniel Kollar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 23 Oct 2000: Did you try to change the content-type of these octet-streams to application/pgp? With the more recent mutt versions, you can comfortably do this from within mutt. Really? I'm using mutt 1.2i . What version do I need to do this

Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-23 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:25:02AM +0200, Daniel Kollar wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:14:09PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: Did you try to change the content-type of these octet-streams to application/pgp? With the more recent mutt versions, you can comfortably do this from within

Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-20 Thread Thomas Roessler
Don't do that. Storing the pgp pass phrase in an environment variable may have been a valid option on MS-DOS computers. It isn't on Unix machines, since the environment is not guaranteed to be confidential. Also, what's the point in using a shell script like the one below? - There is no

Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-20 Thread Daniel Kollar
Don't do that. Storing the pgp pass phrase in an environment variable may have been a valid option on MS-DOS computers. It isn't on Unix machines, since the environment is not guaranteed to be confidential. I'm working on unix. In the PGP CmdLineGuide you will find a section about this.

Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-20 Thread Dan Boger
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:51:13PM +0200, Daniel Kollar wrote: In the PGP CmdLineGuide you will find a section about this. There you can read that using this feature is safe when you use in in a environment where no one else has access to it. I'm doing that. The environment is only active

Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-20 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-10-20 13:51:13 +0200, Daniel Kollar wrote: I'm doing that. The environment is only active as long as mutt is open. No one from outside can access it. That's your particular environment. However, mutt is designed in a way which makes it suitable for use on real multi-user systems.

Re: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable

2000-10-20 Thread Bob Bell
From a bash prompt, try running: COLUMNS= ps ae | grep mutt and see if you don't change your mind about using PGPPASS. -- Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)" --