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Hi All, |
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There are a few mutt users here so I thought of asking here first. |
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I've tried setting up mutt to use as a mail client instead of kmail. |
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Having spent some time now I am not sure it will do what I expect of a mail |
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client, at least not with the ease that I hoped. |
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The basic requirements for my typical use cases are to be able to handle |
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gpg/pgp and s/mime signed and occasionally encrypted messages and to auto- |
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complete addresses. |
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I have several different s/mime certificates and gpg keys for two different mail |
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accounts. Of course only one certificate for each account is valid at any time |
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(the others are expired or revoked) and only one gpg public/private key pair. |
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However, the old keys are still necessary and available in my system to be |
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able to decrypt old emails that I have received over the years. |
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With kmail I do not have to specify gpg keys, or certificate IDs, to be able to |
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decrypt messages. The mail client itself reads the key/certificate and calls |
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gpgsm/kgpg which asks for my passphrase. |
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Also, when I want to send an encrypted message it knows from the Crypto |
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settings of the recipient in the Address Book which public key/certificate to |
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use to encrypt a message. if the recipient has both gpg and s/mime |
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certificates available in the Address Book it asks me which to use on each |
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occasion. |
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Finally, kmail has an auto-completion feature for the recipient address and it |
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suggests as I type the person to send to. Down arrow and enter is all that I |
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need to press. |
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Unlike kmail, with mutt I can't even start using certificates because I am |
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getting errors importing SSL certs like these: |
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3075245704:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong |
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tag:tasn_dec.c:1319: |
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3075245704:error:0D07803A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I:nested asn1 |
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error:tasn_dec.c:381:Type=PKCS12 |
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Mutt asks for s/mime ID Nos, on each message, which with the number of |
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certificates that I have amassed over the years I do not happen to have at hand |
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and it is a pain to type manually each time. |
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Mutt also does not seem to auto-complete any addresses. It uses aliases, but |
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that implies that I must set up such aliases and use these every time I want |
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to enter a particular address. This creates the problem of having to remember |
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each and every alias, rather than typing "fre" and getting a list of Freds, |
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Freddies, Frederics, etc. or part of the Surname, or part of the email |
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address itself. |
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The other difficulty is the key shortcuts in mutt do not behave as I would like |
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them to, but this is that something I could recode so less of a problem. |
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Is there anything that I could do to automate the digital signing and |
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encryption to a level similar to kmail and the auto-completion of email |
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addresses? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |