Well, I put two PERL scripts I wrote at the ftp site (named misc.elm.scripts.tar.gz); here is the README file: scan is the script which prints out signature information of pgp signed messages (instead of where the message came from). Thus, if pgp signed mail is sent through an anonymous remailer, you see who signed the message instead of where it came from. The inner loop is ugly and needs major reworking; I've noted this below and in a comment in the code :-) It would be easy to include this in the mh 'folder' command, but I don't have mh anymore here on owlnet :( Integration into elm itself would be great. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- These are two experimental PERL scripts I wrote which report information about elm mail folders. folders prints a summary of mail in your ~/Mail directory. It prints out how many letters are in each folders, and how many files are in each directory. ~> folders Folder austin : 4 messages Folder cypher : 20 messages Folder educom : 1 message Folder inc : 17 messages Directory misc : 12 messages Folder store : 26 messages Folder ysn : 0 messages - -------------------- scan prints out a more detailed summary of a folder in the ~/Mail directory. It prints message number, who the message is from, and the subject. ~>scan cypher 1 hfinney@shell.portal.com Chaum's credentials (technical question) 2 hughes@ah.com Chaum's credentials (technical question) 3 hfinney@shell.portal.com Signing keys for nyms 4 hfinney@shell.portal.com message depots, packet routing? 5 hughes@ah.com Signing keys for nyms 6 szabo@netcom.com Commerce models scan also takes an optional argument: -p this will make scan look for pgp signed messages, and attempt to verify them. An asterisk is printed at each signed message, and the signer's address is printed instead. ~>scan -p cypher 1* Hal Finney <74076.1041@com Chaum's credentials (technical question) 2 hughes@ah.com Chaum's credentials (technical question) 3* Hal Finney <74076.1041@com Signing keys for nyms 4* Hal Finney <74076.1041@com message depots, packet routing? 5 hughes@ah.com Signing keys for nyms 6 szabo@netcom.com Commerce models Here, we see three messages are signed, and the signer's address is printed instead. This distinction is important if a message is sent via and anonymous remailer, for example. In this case, instead of printing the anonymous remailer as who sent the message, you will see who signed the message (which may in turn be a pseudonym, etc.) BUGS: folders counts the number of message by looking for 'From' at the beginning of a line. This causes problems if the text of a message contains 'From' at the left, or if a message contains a forwarded message, or somehow pastes in another message's header. In these cases, the message count will be off. scan probably also makes this mistake. In fact, you will find the inner loop of scan to be pretty ugly. I will clean it up eventually. scan winds up piping message to PGP to check signatures. This degrades performance. scan is not able to deal with pathological files: pgp messages that don't have an end delimiter, etc. One of these days I will read RFC-822 and other relevant documents and make the message count accurate. Comments, bug fixes, enhancements :-) are all welcome at klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLOUhEoOA7OpLWtYzAQG4PAP/eTw/EWw0wlQ4QVpHfUP6OI3sWdKOltwN 3pgB41JxK1sY/GCnP8rCP9HDEkY/OePTBZDsu9CGJG1fneTsZIlCXrXpKSGzQpvC 94819bdF/+OFe5DcMUcaTcsG/KN3asw3TO0ed4KyOXqTE/SrAIyHsChgKRtHO70u 3uuLWrp0nR8= =vVg8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----