Mutt and old-style encrypted and signed messages

[David K. Trudgett]

On Tuesday 2001-09-25 at 13:19:43 +1000, David K. Trudgett wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Many of you who use Mutt will no doubt be aware that it takes the 
> OpenPGP/MIME route to message encryption. Fine. I have no problem with
> that, since that is the way it should be. But how do I configure Mutt
> so that it will also automatically invoke GnuPG to decrypt/verify
> old-style messages received? At the present time, if I receive such a
> message, I have to save the message to a file and manually run "gpg"
> to be able to read the contents.

Well, I've found a slightly easier way: when viewing the message, just
press "|" and pipe it into "gpg --decrypt | less". That, together with
the fact that after pressing "|" I can press the UP arrow to re-use
the previously entered command, makes it not too inconvenient. This
still doesn't help me if I want to quote the message in reply, though.
I'm looking for a feature that can trigger a filter based on the
contents of the message, but if it exists I haven't seen it yet.


> 
> A related question is: if I know my recipient requires the old-style
> format, how do I tell Mutt to encrypt using the old-style and not use
> multi-part MIME?

I've now RTFM and put a "set pgp_create_traditional=ask-no" into my
".muttrc" file. Now I have an extra ENTER to press whenever I send
encrypted email. It would be nice if it could choose based on a
"send-hook" or something. Is that possible?

Thanks.

David Trudgett