pinepgp for DEBIAN
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Pinepgp is a set filters designed for use with perl that automates 
the process of pgp/gpg signing and encrypting outgoing mail and 
decrypting incoming. 

For incoming mail there is a filter called check, which will report any
pgp/gpg signatures as either Good or Bad in the status field, and if necessary
decrypt the message. If it finds any "PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK"'s it will 
add that key to your public key ring. To use it, add the following line to 
your "display-filters" section of your configuration:

  _BEGINNING("-----BEGIN PGP")_ /usr/lib/pinepgp/check _TMPFILE_ _RESULTFILE_

or if you are using gpg

  _BEGINNING("-----BEGIN PGP")_ /usr/lib/pinepgp/check_gpg _TMPFILE_ _RESULTFILE_


That configuration will alert you everytime it finds a bad signature by 
beeping. If you don't like that behaviour you can add the word NOBEEP to
the end of the line.

For outgoing mail, there are now only one filter. In erlier version there 
where three, those three is still included for backward compatibility but they
miss the new features of the new combined scripted called pgp. It will 
provide you with a menu asking what you want to do and determin whatever it 
would use encrypt or sign as the default action by looking in ~/.autocrypt 
and ~/.autonosign. 

If the to address of the message is found in the autocrypt file the message 
will be encrypted by default, otherwise signed if the address can't be found 
in .autonosign. This files may contaib grep regexps.

To use these, add the following line to your "sending-filters" section of 
your configuration:

  /usr/lib/pinepgp/pgp _TMPFILE_ _RECIPIENTS_

or for gpg

  /usr/lib/pinepgp/gpg _TMPFILE_ _RECIPIENTS_

You might also consider enabling the "compose-send-offers-first-filter"
feature.

If you are saving all your mails and want's to be able to later on read an
mail that was sent away encrypted you can make the filter encrypt all 
outgoing mails with your own public key as well as with the recipents. To do
this simply add your own pgp id after the _RECIPIENTS_ word. This way 
pinepgp will consider you an recpent of your own mail.

Joerg Friedrich <Joerg.Dieter.Friedrich@uni-konstanz.de> mentioned a
problem with pinepgp only showing the first message, here is he's solution:

The pgp-configuration in /etc/pgp.conf must contain 'KEEPBINARY=off' Otherwise
pgp generates a sf?????.pgp file in users home-dir on displaying the first 
encrypted msg. Then it is not possible to display other encrypted msgs within
this pine-session.

Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>, Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:22:17 +0100