[Techtalk] PGP signing mail
Telsa Gwynne
hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Jun 7 09:01:09 EST 2004
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:12:18AM -0400 or thereabouts, Teri Solow wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:28:20AM -0700, jm said:
> > Signing work email involves a considerable amount of user-education
> > and is hard w/o a supportive infrastructure (i.e., everyone using a
> > good email client, etc). But if you do want to sign all your work
...
> Anyway, I'm relatively sure that there is at least a subset of people
> I will email at work who won't freak out if they recieve signed mail;
> and coincidentally all the mail from the other people goes into a
> separate mailbox so I can simply not sign it with a folder hook. I'll
> probably try it though, and see what happens/who yells at me. :)
I notice from your headers that you are using Mutt:
From: Teri Solow <tsolow at terisolow.com>
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] PGP siging mail
Mail-Followup-To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i
...
I haven't really got into this yet, despite using Mutt for a
long time. But it is possible to set send-hooks. You can say
that when mailing specific addresses, mutt should do specific
things: change your Reply-To, append a specific .signature,
and so on.
3.17. Change settings based upon message recipients
Usage: send-hook [!]pattern command
This command can be used to execute arbitrary configuration commands
based upon recipients of the message. pattern is a regular expression
matching the desired address. command is executed when regexp matches
recipients of the message. [...]
Example: send-hook mutt "set mime_forward signature=''"
I have a couple of friends who routinely sign and/or encrypt their
private email. I try to reciprocate when mailing them. Generally
I just hit the relevant commands on finishing the mail. But I am
sure it should be possible to say "always encrypt mail going to
this address" using Mutt and send-hooks.
I would figure it out, except that it has just occurred to me
that someone on techtalk has probably done so already. If they
have, then we can both borrow it :)
Any offers?
Telsa
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