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On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> I have been reading through the GPG manual and it explains the
> primary use of the GPG for signing files/documents. How can I use
> GPG to sign email or encrypt email?
>
Simply:

cat messagefile | gpg -sear user@domain.com | sendmail -v user@domain.com

This will take the message in messagefile encrypt, sign and uuencode and
send it to user@domin.com using his/her key.

John

John C. Place
jcplace@attglobal.net
http://profile.guru.com/placej
http://placej.interactivecore.com/public_key.txt

UNIX is a very user-friendly system--it's just not promiscuous
about which users it's friendly with.

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Still a rather inconvenient method, particularly for users that wish to
use GnuPG for a large volume of mail. Interfaces for Netscape, Eudora,
and (dare I say it) Outlook would be useful. Hopefully someone will
undertake such a project. Mozilla might be a good place to start....

Scott F. Crosby
E-Mail : skroz@skroz.net
Web : http://hcgl.eng.ohio-state.edu/~crosbys

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is
not the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman

I can accept encrypted messages enciphered with Verisign or GPG/PGP. Both
public keys can be found below or at
http://hcgl.eng.ohio-state.edu/~crosbys

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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=zxK6
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----




-----Original Message-----
From: John C. Place [mailto:jcplace@attglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 12:15 AM
To: Subba Rao
Cc: GNU Privacy Guard Users
Subject: Re: GPG and mail


On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> I have been reading through the GPG manual and it explains the
> primary use of the GPG for signing files/documents. How can I use
> GPG to sign email or encrypt email?
>
Simply:

cat messagefile | gpg -sear user@domain.com | sendmail -v user@domain.com

This will take the message in messagefile encrypt, sign and uuencode and
send it to user@domin.com using his/her key.

John

John C. Place
jcplace@attglobal.net
http://profile.guru.com/placej
http://placej.interactivecore.com/public_key.txt

UNIX is a very user-friendly system--it's just not promiscuous
about which users it's friendly with.

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On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:50:18AM -0400, Scott F. Crosby wrote:
> Still a rather inconvenient method,
>
I agree, Since the person asking the question did not say what mail
client I was trying to put it at the lowest level possible so he/she
could build from there.

> particularly for users that wish to
> use GnuPG for a large volume of mail. Interfaces for Netscape, Eudora,
> and (dare I say it) Outlook would be useful. Hopefully someone will
> undertake such a project. Mozilla might be a good place to start....
>
Agreed... My e-mail client of choice is mutt. It supports gpg/pgp "out
of the box". I perfer it to the GUI types but that is a matter of
opinion :-)

Thanks
John

John C. Place
jcplace@attglobal.net
http://profile.guru.com/placej
http://placej.interactivecore.com/public_key.txt

UNIX is a very user-friendly system--it's just not promiscuous
about which users it's friendly with.

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> Agreed... My e-mail client of choice is mutt. It supports gpg/pgp "out
> of the box". I perfer it to the GUI types but that is a matter of
> opinion :-)

a matter of good taste ;-)

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, John C. Place wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> > I have been reading through the GPG manual and it explains the
> > primary use of the GPG for signing files/documents. How can I use
> > GPG to sign email or encrypt email?
> >
> Simply:
>
> cat messagefile | gpg -sear user@domain.com | sendmail -v user@domain.com
>

Wow, massively inconvenient. Sure, it'll work, but so will flying from New
York to Washington via Tokio. Why not simply use pine with pgp4pine or
mutt?

> This will take the message in messagefile encrypt, sign and uuencode and
> send it to user@domin.com using his/her key.
>
> John
>
> John C. Place
> jcplace@attglobal.net
> http://profile.guru.com/placej
> http://placej.interactivecore.com/public_key.txt
>
> UNIX is a very user-friendly system--it's just not promiscuous
> about which users it's friendly with.
>
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:53:35PM +0200, Stefan Suurmeijer wrote:
> > cat messagefile | gpg -sear user@domain.com | sendmail -v user@domain.com
> >
>
> Wow, massively inconvenient. Sure, it'll work, but so will flying from New
> York to Washington via Tokio. Why not simply use pine with pgp4pine or
> mutt?
>
The person asked how and failed to give any kind of
indication of their mail client or platform. As far as I can see the
commandline above will work on any UNIXish platform.. I Would not use it
for normal use... I use mutt and am quite happy with it...

Sorry about the confusion I introduced...

Thanks
John

John C. Place
jcplace@attglobal.net
http://profile.guru.com/placej
http://placej.interactivecore.com/public_key.txt

UNIX is a very user-friendly system--it's just not promiscuous
about which users it's friendly with.

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