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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:41:59 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Donald P. Dahlman" <druid@eoe-magical.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PGP question
Message-ID:  <19980831114159.Q606@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <35E99F1E.E4CE0826@eoe-magical.org>; from Donald P. Dahlman on Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 07:51:10PM %2B0100
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>

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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
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