On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:28:18AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:58:32PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote:
> >
> > I've got pgp (ver. 6.5.8i) working outside of mutt. I can also verify
> > signed msgs after I get their public keys outside of mutt.
> >
> > But I can't sign outgoing msgs. After selecting the (s)ign command
> > from the pgp menu enter my passphrase, I get a
> >
> > received signal 11
> > press any key to continue...
> >
> > message and the message doesn't get sent.
>
> Do you have
>
> source "/usr/local/src/mutt-1.2.5/contrib/pgp6.rc"
>
yes, it's in ~/.mutt/muttrc. I changed all "pgp6" to just plain
"pgp" for pgp to work within mutt.
And I removed this entry that was in the bottom of pgp6.rc
set pgp_getkeys_command="pkspxycwrap %r"
because it causes an error whenever I try to verify sigs in signed
msgs.
> in .muttrc? (with the appropriate path for your machine) This is
> probably not the problem, but it's necessary.
>
> PGP 6.5.8 and pgp6.rc don't work smoothly together when encrypting to
> an untrusted key. When sending to an untrusted key PGP promts:
>
I tried encrypting a message that I addressed to myself and to another
who is in my pubring and both don't work. Seems like I need to do more
tweaking. Any ideas?
Thanks.
> WARNING: Because this public key is not certified with a trusted
> signature, it is not known with high confidence that this public key
> actually belongs to: "Nancy Nobody <nosuchperson@nowhere>".
>
> Are you sure you want to use this public key (y/N)?
>
> Mutt apparently does not pass a "y" response back to PGP and so the
> encryption fails due to the default "N."
>
> If the key is trusted the question is not asked and the encryption
> succeeds.
>
> I asked about a fix for this before but got no responses. Fiddling
> around today I found a hack that's ugly but works: remove the +batch
> from the encrypt command in pgp6.rc. During the encryption process
> after the prompt:
>
> Are you sure you want to use this public key (y/N)?
>
> appears, answer "y", then blindly "y" again and <enter>. The encrypted
> message will be sent.
>
