[gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message

[gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message

[Walter Dnes]

  mutt couldn't handle the message from Klaus Ethgen, listed in menu as...

Apr 19 Klaus Ethgen (1.5K) [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background

  Trying to open it gave following message in status line at bottom...

Could not copy message

  Google searching found other people with the same problem, only with
signed messages.  There was speculation about mutt and gpg not working
together well, but no solutions specified.  I came up with a rather
heavy-handed solution.

  I originally had the "gpg" USE flag enabled for mail-client/mutt in
package.use.  Setting "-gpg" for mutt, and rebuilding "solves the
problem", at the cost of removing gpg functionality.  Just a heads up in
case anybody else runs into the same problem.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message

[Lucas Ramage]

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I recently had some troubles with mutt and gpg. I eventually switched to neomutt with gpgme.

On April 20, 2018 6:18:57 PM UTC, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>mutt couldn't handle the message from Klaus Ethgen, listed in menu
>as...
>
>Apr 19 Klaus Ethgen (1.5K) [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light
>background
>
>  Trying to open it gave following message in status line at bottom...
>
>Could not copy message
>
>  Google searching found other people with the same problem, only with
>signed messages.  There was speculation about mutt and gpg not working
>together well, but no solutions specified.  I came up with a rather
>heavy-handed solution.
>
>  I originally had the "gpg" USE flag enabled for mail-client/mutt in
>package.use.  Setting "-gpg" for mutt, and rebuilding "solves the
>problem", at the cost of removing gpg functionality.  Just a heads up
>in
>case anybody else runs into the same problem.
>
>-- 
>Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
>I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message

[Mick]

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On Friday, 20 April 2018 19:18:57 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
>   mutt couldn't handle the message from Klaus Ethgen, listed in menu as...
> 
> Apr 19 Klaus Ethgen (1.5K) [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background
> 
>   Trying to open it gave following message in status line at bottom...
> 
> Could not copy message
> 
>   Google searching found other people with the same problem, only with
> signed messages.  There was speculation about mutt and gpg not working
> together well, but no solutions specified.  I came up with a rather
> heavy-handed solution.

This may have been unnecessary.


>   I originally had the "gpg" USE flag enabled for mail-client/mutt in
> package.use.  Setting "-gpg" for mutt, and rebuilding "solves the
> problem", at the cost of removing gpg functionality.  Just a heads up in
> case anybody else runs into the same problem.

Some of the mutt USE flags changed recently.  I seem to recall some elog/ewarn 
message on this.  Instead of USE=gpg and USE=smime, try USE=gpgme instead and 
then add:

'set crypt_use_gpgme=yes'

in your /$HOME/.muttrc.

HTH.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Mick wrote

> Some of the mutt USE flags changed recently.  I seem to recall
> some elog/ewarn message on this.  Instead of USE=gpg and USE=smime,
> try USE=gpgme instead and then add:
> 
> 'set crypt_use_gpgme=yes'
> 
> in your /$HOME/.muttrc.

  Thanks for the hints. I finally got it working.  In package.use I have...

mail-client/mutt gpg gpgme mbox pop smtp -smime

  "Interesting" item... "emerge -pv mutt" gives me...

[ebuild   R    ] mail-client/mutt-1.7.2::gentoo  USE="gpg mbox pop smtp ssl -berkdb -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm (-gnutls) -idn -imap -kerberos -libressl -nls -nntp -notmuch -qdbm -sasl (-selinux) -sidebar -slang -smime -tokyocabinet -vanilla"

  There is no mention of "gpgme" in the output... but... mutt-1.7.2.ebuild
contains...

======================================
* In CDEPEND
gpg?     ( >=app-crypt/gpgme-0.9.0:= )
======================================

======================================
* In src_configure() {
             local myconf=(

"$(use_enable gpg gpgme)"
======================================

  The CDEPEND I can understand.  The second item is a puzzler.  How are
we supposed to know about the "gpgme" flag, if it doesn't show up under
"emerge -pv".  By the way, my mutt config is in $HOME/.mutt/muttrc

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Re: mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-04-24 21:13, Walter Dnes wrote:

> "$(use_enable gpg gpgme)"

"gpgme" above is _not_ a USE flag.  That incantation tells portage to
pass "--enable-gpgme" to the upstream package configure script if "gpg"
USE flag is set in gentoo.

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