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

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