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- l10n support
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no
- use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in the manual
- page muttrc(5).
- Instead, you'll need to have the Debian package "locales" installed on
- your system and set the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable.
- e.g. US users will want to add "export LC_CTYPE=en_US" to their ~/.bashrc.
- If you have a /etc/locale.gen file read carefully the comment and do
- what it says, or it will not work.
- No, linux systems do not need --enable-locales-fix or --without-wc-funcs,
- so don't bother me saying these switches cure your problems.
-
-
- PGP support
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- GnuPG support works out of the box with the default /etc/Muttrc.
- You do not need any of the example files in /usr/share/doc/mutt/
- unless you plan to send signed+encrypted messages to pgp2 users.
-
-
- gpg-2comp
- ~~~~~~~~~
- /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/gpg.rc uses a wrapper program called
- gpg-2comp which is not available as a debian package.
- This program is needed only to sign and encrypt messages with a method
- compatible with PGP 2.x. Users who don't need this feature can use the
- commands provided in the default /etc/Muttrc.
- The pgpewrap and pgpring programs used by some example rc files have
- been installed in /usr/lib/mutt.
- The files /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/*.rc are just examples and are not
- supposed to be used as is. Actually they are not supposed to be used at
- all, PGP support works out of the box if gnupg is installed.
-
-
- GnuPG passphrase
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The GnuPG passphrase is not asked if the $GPG_AGENT_INFO environment
- variable exists.
-
-
- Scripts
- ~~~~~~~
- Look at /usr/lib/mutt/{debian-ldap-query,mailspell}.
-
-
- pgp_encryptself
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This mutt 1.0.x configuration option does not exist anymore and this
- will not change. To achieve the same effect you can add something like
- --encrypt-to=your@mail.address to the relevant ~/.muttrc configuration
- lines (pgp_encrypt_only_command and pgp_encrypt_sign_command) or to
- ~/.gnupg/options .
-
-
- S/MIME Support
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- See README.SMIME for details.
-
-
- About temporary files and security
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- When using mutt to view an encrypted message, the plain text is saved in
- a temporary file. If you have reasons to worry an attacker may recover
- the deleted file from your hard disk please take appropriate actions to
- prevent this (e.g. use a ramdisk or shred(1) or wipe(1)).
- Also don't forget about the temporary files created by your editor.
- Mutt creates temporary files in a secure way. See #222125 for details.
-
-
- /etc/Muttrc.d/
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The default /etc/Muttrc will source more configuration directives from
- files in the /etc/Muttrc.d/ directory ending in ".rc".
- The system administrator may use the directory for local customizations
- and packages enhancing mutt may use it to install their configuration
- directives.
- The directory is processed last in /etc/Muttrc, so that settings there
- may override the defaults from the file.
-
- -- Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:02:26 +0100
-