Decrypting PGP/MIME on the command line

Brian Minton brian at minton.name
Tue Mar 3 14:35:18 CET 2015


Mailpile may be useful.  https://mailpile.is

It lets you scan in a bunch of messages, and decrypt them, and indexes
them, keeping the index and message store encrypted.  It has command
line as well as a gui.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:32 AM, René Puls <rpuls at kcore.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a command line utility that takes a PGP/MIME encrypted message
> (a plain RFC 2822 text file) and outputs an unencrypted copy? The
> secret key is available and GnuPG is configured correctly. It is okay
> if the process is somewhat lossy; signatures or attachments do not need
> to be preserved, although I would not mind that either. :-)
>
> Background: I would like to decrypt e-mails permanently for archiving
> and searching, and run this utility over hundreds of e-mails in a
> single batch.
>
> Alternatively, if there is a way to permanently decrypt an e-mail in
> Claws Mail, that would help me as well. It seems that Enigmail has such
> a feature[1] (or will have it soon), but I have not found anything
> similar for Claws Mail and would prefer a general-purpose utility which
> I can just run as a filter, independent of my e-mail client.
>
> René
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/1/
>
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