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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:15:26
Message-Id: 1670583.JvHrMaF55I@dell_xps
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message by Walter Dnes
1 On Friday, 20 April 2018 19:18:57 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > mutt couldn't handle the message from Klaus Ethgen, listed in menu as...
3 >
4 > Apr 19 Klaus Ethgen (1.5K) [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background
5 >
6 > Trying to open it gave following message in status line at bottom...
7 >
8 > Could not copy message
9 >
10 > Google searching found other people with the same problem, only with
11 > signed messages. There was speculation about mutt and gpg not working
12 > together well, but no solutions specified. I came up with a rather
13 > heavy-handed solution.
14
15 This may have been unnecessary.
16
17
18 > I originally had the "gpg" USE flag enabled for mail-client/mutt in
19 > package.use. Setting "-gpg" for mutt, and rebuilding "solves the
20 > problem", at the cost of removing gpg functionality. Just a heads up in
21 > case anybody else runs into the same problem.
22
23 Some of the mutt USE flags changed recently. I seem to recall some elog/ewarn
24 message on this. Instead of USE=gpg and USE=smime, try USE=gpgme instead and
25 then add:
26
27 'set crypt_use_gpgme=yes'
28
29 in your /$HOME/.muttrc.
30
31 HTH.
32
33 --
34 Regards,
35 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>