GPG and mail

[Stefan Suurmeijer]

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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