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[217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 1sm160982205wiz.11.2012.01.08.10.32.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:32:15 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using mutt instead of kmail Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 18:32:07 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2079081.tBW0fcVve1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201081832.18571.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bf733114-05e4-4cf4-9948-cfcb54ae4990 X-Archives-Hash: e6afdcad3769f0680fded585256ca988 --nextPart2079081.tBW0fcVve1 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, There are a few mutt users here so I thought of asking here first. I've tried setting up mutt to use as a mail client instead of kmail. Having spent some time now I am not sure it will do what I expect of a mail= =20 client, at least not with the ease that I hoped. The basic requirements for my typical use cases are to be able to handle=20 gpg/pgp and s/mime signed and occasionally encrypted messages and to auto- complete addresses. I have several different s/mime certificates and gpg keys for two different= mail=20 accounts. Of course only one certificate for each account is valid at any = time=20 (the others are expired or revoked) and only one gpg public/private key pai= r. However, the old keys are still necessary and available in my system to be= =20 able to decrypt old emails that I have received over the years. With kmail I do not have to specify gpg keys, or certificate IDs, to be abl= e to=20 decrypt messages. The mail client itself reads the key/certificate and cal= ls=20 gpgsm/kgpg which asks for my passphrase. Also, when I want to send an encrypted message it knows from the Crypto=20 settings of the recipient in the Address Book which public key/certificate = to=20 use to encrypt a message. if the recipient has both gpg and s/mime=20 certificates available in the Address Book it asks me which to use on each= =20 occasion. =46inally, kmail has an auto-completion feature for the recipient address a= nd it=20 suggests as I type the person to send to. Down arrow and enter is all that= I=20 need to press. Unlike kmail, with mutt I can't even start using certificates because I am= =20 getting errors importing SSL certs like these: 3075245704:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong=20 tag:tasn_dec.c:1319: 3075245704:error:0D07803A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I:nested as= n1=20 error:tasn_dec.c:381:Type=3DPKCS12 Mutt asks for s/mime ID Nos, on each message, which with the number of=20 certificates that I have amassed over the years I do not happen to have at = hand=20 and it is a pain to type manually each time. Mutt also does not seem to auto-complete any addresses. It uses aliases, b= ut=20 that implies that I must set up such aliases and use these every time I wan= t=20 to enter a particular address. This creates the problem of having to remem= ber=20 each and every alias, rather than typing "fre" and getting a list of Freds,= =20 =46reddies, Frederics, etc. or part of the Surname, or part of the email=20 address itself. The other difficulty is the key shortcuts in mutt do not behave as I would = like=20 them to, but this is that something I could recode so less of a problem. Is there anything that I could do to automate the digital signing and=20 encryption to a level similar to kmail and the auto-completion of email=20 addresses? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2079081.tBW0fcVve1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk8J4TIACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbw2QCg6CBQESSUQiBtaFYvHRPP6cAS 1bAAn1yH+IMMJZoI8DFA1wBCObnr9g6U =XKfB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2079081.tBW0fcVve1--