Re: Sending Messages Takes A Long Time
Hi Kelly, * Kelly Scroggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22-12-2001 07:38]: | I seem to have a problem with mutt since I | upgraded my OS from Red Hat 6.1 to Red Hat 7.1. | | I've searched the archives, and groups.google.com | without any luck. | | After composing an email message, and pressing 'y' | to send the message on it's way, it takes what | seems like an eterinity to send the message. | | It must be about 30 seconds to a minute for the | message to be sent. | | I'm using the same .muttrc I used with the older | version of the client. | | Does this ring a bell with anyone? Can anyone | give me a clue as to how this can be resolved? This could have something to do with the setting of the $sendmail_wait variable. Type :set sendmail_wait to see what the value it contains. Default is 0, which means wait forever for sendmail to finish. A negative value puts sendmail in the background, which is what you want, I presume. | Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions, Hope this helps, -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. msg21837/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: auto_view problem
On Fri Dec 21, 2001 at 06:29:19PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: [...snip...] One idea could be to try Dave Pearson's 'mutt.octet.filter' (found on: http://www.davep.org/mutt/ ), which ... will attempt to guess the true content of an octet-stream MIME attatchment and format for easy text-oriented viewing. Who knows, it might work for you. I have tried all possible invocations of tar/gzip I could think of: application/x-tar-gz; gunzip -c %s|tar tf -;copiousoutput application/x-tar-gz; tar tzf -;copiousoutput application/x-tar-gz; tar tzf %s;copiousoutput None of them work. I ran mutt under strace, and couldn't find any notion of it reading _any_ mailcap file. This seems to be because it spawns some children -- it positively _does_ read my ~/.mailcap, since this entry works as expected (wrapped): image/*; anytopnm %s|pnmscale -xs 70 |ppmtopgm|pgmtopbm|pbmtoascii;copiousoutput [...snip...] My mutt (1.2.5 now, used to run 1.3.23) _will_not_ act upon my ~/.mailcap; it does however recognize my ~/.mutt/mailcap, so try moving your mailcap. Again, who knows, it might work. *smiles hopefully* Cheers, /Martin (who has exhausted his knowledge of mailcap-related problems and hopes a full-fledged mailcap-guru will join the thread. :-) ) -- Martin Karlsson martin.karlsson at visit.se
PGP
hi all, i've generated my public and private keys with ssh-keygen -t dsa I tried to send a pgp signed mail, but what i get is: gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available what must i do? thanks -- giorgian
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Re: PGP
Moin, * giorgian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-12-22 14:54]: i've generated my public and private keys with ssh-keygen -t dsa I tried to send a pgp signed mail, but what i get is: gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available what must i do? I never mixed SSH and GPG keys and I wonder whether this is possible. Just use GPG to generate your keys. Thorsten -- Jede Glorifizierung eines Menschen, der im Krieg getötet worden ist, bedeutet drei Tote im nächsten Krieg. - Kurt Tucholsky
Re: [OT] unsubscribing
Pradeep -- ...and then Pradeep Sangunni said... % % Hi, Hello! Well, goodbye, it seems... % % I have changed my email ID and would like to unsubscribe from this mailing % list have'nt got clues on how to go about it any help! You saved the welcome message you got when you signed up, right? That has all of the information you need. If you didn't, there's an easy way to get another copy: sign up from your new address and one will be sent to you. You can then unsubscribe one or both accounts. % % Thanks % Reg, % - Pradeep. % :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg21842/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PGP
Giorgian -- ...and then giorgian said... % % hi all, Hello! % % i've generated my public and private keys with % % ssh-keygen -t dsa Note that those are your ssh session keys and having nothing to do with pgp and gpg... % % I tried to send a pgp signed mail, but what i get is: % gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available % gpg: signing failed: secret key not available Right. gpg knows nothing of your ssh keys, which are only for encrypting socket connections (well, at least I've never tried to use one for the other, and I'd be surprised if the keys had the same structure). % % what must i do? Generate a key with gpg, of course :-) Try gpg --help to get started. % % thanks HTH HAND % % -- % giorgian :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg21843/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sending Messages Takes A Long Time
That did it! Thank you. That command is not in my muttrc... I guess I just add that line ...anywhere? kelly Quoting René Clerc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Kelly, * Kelly Scroggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22-12-2001 07:38]: | I seem to have a problem with mutt since I | upgraded my OS from Red Hat 6.1 to Red Hat 7.1. | | I've searched the archives, and groups.google.com | without any luck. | | After composing an email message, and pressing 'y' | to send the message on it's way, it takes what | seems like an eterinity to send the message. | | It must be about 30 seconds to a minute for the | message to be sent. | | I'm using the same .muttrc I used with the older | version of the client. | | Does this ring a bell with anyone? Can anyone | give me a clue as to how this can be resolved? This could have something to do with the setting of the $sendmail_wait variable. Type :set sendmail_wait to see what the value it contains. Default is 0, which means wait forever for sendmail to finish. A negative value puts sendmail in the background, which is what you want, I presume. | Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions, Hope this helps, -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Re: PGP
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:24:05AM -0500, David T-G wrote: Right. gpg knows nothing of your ssh keys, which are only for encrypting socket connections (well, at least I've never tried to use one for the other, and I'd be surprised if the keys had the same structure). % % what must i do? Generate a key with gpg, of course :-) Try gpg --help to get started. ok, i've done this. now it works. but: 1) how can i tell mutt to automatically signs all my mail, and not to ask for my passphrase every time? 2) if i send a signed email to myself, mutt recognizes my public key. but when i read someone else's gpg signed email, what i read is: gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 22 17:24:05 2001 CET using DSA key ID 7B9F4700 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found what must i do to get people's public keys? thaks again -- msg21845/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PGP
giorgian wrote: but: 1) how can i tell mutt to automatically signs all my mail, and not to ask for my passphrase every time? from the FM: pgp_autosign Type: boolean Default: no Setting this variable will cause Mutt to always attempt to PGP/MIME sign outgoing messages. This [...] you don't want to have mutt save your passphrase; doing that would probably necessitate storing your passphrase in cleartext somewhere. mutt will cache your passphrase for a short period of time after you've typed it though. if you haven't already, i'd highly suggest reading the (very lengthy) gnupg user guide, and then reading it again. 2) if i send a signed email to myself, mutt recognizes my public key. but when i read someone else's gpg signed email, what i read is: add a line like: keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu to your .gnupg/options file.
Re: PGP
giorgian wrote: 1) how can i tell mutt to automatically signs all my mail, and not to ask for my passphrase every time? also note that signing all of your mail may result in problems for other people - if their MUA doesn't like PGP/MIME, or 'application/pgp' type emails (the only types that mutt sends). for instance, someone using outlook might not be able to read your emails at all. w
Re: Sending Messages Takes A Long Time
* Kelly Scroggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22-12-2001 17:40]: | That did it! Thank you. No problem ;) | That command is not in my muttrc... I guess I just | add that line ...anywhere? Yep! Bye, -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. -George Bernard Shaw msg21848/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PGP
* Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22-12-2001 17:50]: | 2) if i send a signed email to myself, mutt recognizes my public key. | but when i read someone else's gpg signed email, what i read is: | | add a line like: | keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu | | to your .gnupg/options file. And, giorgian, the other way around, it might be a good idea to upload _your_ public key to a server, too! -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. -James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies msg21849/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PGP
giorgian muttered: On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:24:05AM -0500, David T-G wrote: but: 1) how can i tell mutt to automatically signs all my mail, and not to ask for my passphrase every time? Once you entered the passphrase mutt should remember it. If you really want to sign every mail set pgp_autosign in your muttrc. Signing on mailing lists is nonsense IMHO. 2) if i send a signed email to myself, mutt recognizes my public key. but when i read someone else's gpg signed email, what i read is: gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 22 17:24:05 2001 CET using DSA key ID 7B9F4700 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found what must i do to get people's public keys? You have to specify a keyserver either via gpg's --keyserver option in in your gpg options file. $ grep ^keyserver ~/.gnupg/options keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net HTH, Michael -- PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key
Re: PGP
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: giorgian wrote: but: 1) how can i tell mutt to automatically signs all my mail, and not to ask for my passphrase every time? from the FM: pgp_autosign Type: boolean Default: no Setting this variable will cause Mutt to always attempt to PGP/MIME sign outgoing messages. This [...] you don't want to have mutt save your passphrase; doing that would probably necessitate storing your passphrase in cleartext somewhere. mutt will cache your passphrase for a short period of time after you've typed it though. Also from the FM: pgp_timeout Type: number Default: 300 The number of seconds after which a cached passphrase will expire if not used. Increase this as much as you dare. if you haven't already, i'd highly suggest reading the (very lengthy) gnupg user guide, and then reading it again. I second that! It really is a good read. It can be found at: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html -- Johan Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://johan.nforced.com/ GnuPG: 1024D/6415B9F7, CA6F 0720 B0D1 2FBA 74EB 348C 3110 6415 B9F7 msg21851/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PGP
Moin, * giorgian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-12-22 17:38]: 1) how can i tell mutt to automatically signs all my mail set pgp_autosign and not to ask for my passphrase every time? You shouldn't do this (and I don't know how it's done). 2) if i send a signed email to myself, mutt recognizes my public key. but when i read someone else's gpg signed email, what i read is: gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 22 17:24:05 2001 CET using DSA key ID 7B9F4700 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found what must i do to get people's public keys? Depends, but you should get most keys from the public key servers. In fact, depending on your options, GPG tries this anyway. Search the GPG documentation for 'keyserver'. Thorsten -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent - Isaac Asimov
Re: PGP
Thus spake giorgian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): what must i do to get people's public keys? You might also want to check out my guide: http://codesorcery.net/mutt/ And like others on the list, I would recommend reading the GNU Privacy Guide as well. -- Justin R. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] View my website at http://codesorcery.net Please encrypt email using key 0xC9C40C31 msg21853/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
