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- the following are the perl programs i use to integrate pgp with mail
- and tin (my newsreader of choice). they seem to work pretty well, but
- they are hacks first & foremost, so you'll have to tweak them to get
- them to work on your system. if you come up with any improvements
- i'd appreciate a copy. other than that, do with 'em what you will.
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- these are the programs:
- morepgp: a pipe and wrapper for more (or your standard pager) which
- extracts PGP blocks and runs them through PGP.
- mailpgp: a wrapper for vi (or your standard visual editor) which
- gives the user the option of signing & encrypting a message
- when they finish editing it.
- postpgp: another vi wrapper, which only gives the option of signing
- a message & handles environment variables slightly differently
- since tin doesn't have a set of its own.
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- installing with mail:
- in your .mailrc, set the mail PAGER variable to morepgp, and the
- VISUAL variable to mailpgp. make sure both programs are in your
- path (or their paths are fully specified in the vars) and that the
- #! lines correctly point to perl on your system.
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- installing with tin (may apply to other newsreaders too, but no guarantees):
- write a shell wrapper for your newsreader that sets the variable
- VISUALBAK from $VISUAL and sets VISUAL to postpgp before calling
- the newsreader. the newsreader will then call postpgp whenever you
- edit a new post, allowing you the opportunity to sign the message
- before sending it.
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- bugs:
- mailpgp & postpgp only sign/encrypt the -last- item on the
- command line. this isn't normally a problem since i never edit
- more than one file for news or mail. if it is for you, change 'em
- & send me updates.
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