Peter, et al -- ...and then Peter T. Abplanalp said... % % hi all. just a quick question from a newbie. i usually sign all my
Welcome!
% emails but one of the lists i write to complains that it will not accept
% emails with attachments due to the fact that they don't want to spread
Yeah, I know of one of those, too. Are you by chance a Toshiba user? :-)
% msft viruses. now it is my understanding that when you sign an email you
% are actually sending a multipart "page" with the message being part 1 and
% the signature being part 2. if that is the case then it would seem to me
That's when it's done The Right Way
Note that this is highly volatile flame fodder; see the archives for many
virulent and voluminous discussions of How To Sign and Where To Sign and
When To Sign. You've been warned :-) and somewhat informed.
% that i cannot send signed emails to this list. is my understanding valid?
% is there another way to send signed emails? and now for the mutt tie-in,
mutt also supports $pgp_create_traditional to put the signature in the
body of the message ("in-line signing"), which should work for this list
and which is required for Outhouse users.
% can i set mutt up to automatically not sign emails to particular address?
You can, but for reasons mentioned in the various flame wars I don't
recommend it. If you're going to sign at all, then why sometimes not
sign and weaken the other half of your PGP presence?
% i have read about the *-hooks but am still new to mutt. might someone give
% an example or two of how this might be done. thanks!
You probably want a send-hook, since you'd trigger this based on an
address. First you should establish the default behavior:
send-hook . set pgp_autosign
Next, because more than one send-hook can apply to a message, you handle
your exception case(s):
send-hook lousylist unset pgp_autosign
That's all there is to it.
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