From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 19:17:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06739 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nebula.nift.net ([206.142.145.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06734 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:16:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from druid@eoe-magical.org) Received: from eoe-magical.org ([206.142.145.138]) by nebula.nift.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05596; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:59:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35E9B342.D4928286@eoe-magical.org> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:17:06 +0100 From: "Donald P. Dahlman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-DIAL (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PGP question References: <35E90B60.20DAD8F6@eoe-magical.org> <19980831082953.D606@freebie.lemis.com> <35E99734.E6641A78@eoe-magical.org> <19980831095642.N606@freebie.lemis.com> <35E99F1E.E4CE0826@eoe-magical.org> <19980831114159.Q606@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG so you are saying that if I install mutt on my unix server, then when I retrieve my email using Netscape under NT, instead of getting the encrypted ascii data, it will decrypt it and present me with the notmal text. Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 30 August 1998 at 19:51:10 +0100, Donald P. Dahlman wrote: > >>>>> when an encrypted message is retrieved, is there an > >>>>> automated way to have it un-encrypted automatically when it is > >>>>> retrieved from the server. > >>>> > >>>> Depends on what kind of message, and what you mean by "server". If > >>>> you're talking about mail messages, mutt will do this for you > >>>> automatically. > >>> > >>> I collect me mail with my NT machine, using netscape, how would mutt > >>> handle this as it would need to be converted when downloaded for reading. > >> > >> If by "collect" you mean downloading with POP, you need a program like > >> qpopper to do that. But the real way is to use sendmail. > >> > >> In any case, if you use mutt, you don't use Netscape or NT. See > >> http://www.lemis.com/email.html for more details. > > I wish you wouldn't remove the context. It's only a coincidence that > I know what the message is about like that. I've restored it above, > hopefully correctly. > > > I have my own server. I have sendmail running, > > What do you mean by "collect", then? > > > and have PGP installed to encrypt mail sent to me from html > > forms. In its raw form, the email is collected, then I run pgp in a > > command line to decrypt it, want it to be done automaticaly when I > > open or download the mail. > > What do you mean by "download"? > > In any case, if you use mutt, it'll be done automatically. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key -- ICQ # 4694394 Web Site > http://www.eoe-magical.org Active Worlds > Pagan http://www.activeworlds.com http://www.activeworlds.com/download.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message