Re: Folders

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:05:25 Nathan Clemons wrote:
[snip]
> > 
> > I don't know who implemented the filter stuff, but I don't beleive there
> > has been any contact from them on the subject for some time, so I guess
> > that development of that is not going anywhere at the moment - to be
> > honest I've never really looked at the filter stuff, so I have no idea how
> > far along it is.
> > 
> > Personally I use procmail to sort my mail.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I was actually thinking about this today... it may be some time before
> there is true PGP/GPG support. It would be nice if you could define a
yes

> filter for outgoing messages as well, so that you could filter outbound
> email through a program which would do the encryption work. This is how
no

> PINE can support PGP, via the use of the program pgp4pine which is simply
> a PINE filter.
> 
this is *very* ugly. there was something like this written by Gooch (iirc)
called pgpsendmail which was a wrapper around /usr/sbin/sendmail and used the
To: field rules in config files to sign/crypt messages. it came complete with a

passworddeamon (melp).

the mutt is much more cleaner. you muck with invoking gpg but present the user

with a gpg menu.

> Basically, you define "outbound" filters. When you send mail you can
> select a filter to use (including none). It also allows for a matching

that doesn't need to be built into the mailer

> inbound filter... if you see "ABC" text, then filter it through
> "XYZ" commandline. So if you see "-----BEGIN PGP", then filter it through
> "/usr/local/bin/pgp4pine -d -i _TMPFILE_" (_TMPFILE_ is replaced by PINE
> with the name of the actual temp file used).
> 

pretty much pgpsendmail

> This kind of support would be a good idea, in my opinion, even after we
> get true integration with PGP/GPG. It could also allow for manual
> filtering of messages (perhaps filters to semi-automatically complain
> about spam, etc.).
> 
no, not automatic spam complaints please.

cheers

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