Eric Murray wrote: | Where we're headed is mail filters with PGP imbedded (PGP 3 will | make this much easier) that check incoming mail for a valid signature | for certain PGP keyid/fingerprints and pass that mail along. | Other mail that doesn't match gets tossed into a 'junk' folder | or thrown away if you really don't want to talk to anyone that you | don't already know. I agree with the assesment of where we may be going, but the technology is available now. (Marshall Rose uses it; if you want to get mail into his private mailbox, offer him some $ via imbedded FV authorizations in the mail, and it goes into his inbox. If he thinks it was worth his time, he doesn't charge you.) Anyway, the code is defeintely available now. The back end is a little kludgy, but it was needed for an auto ley retreival script. This could easily be hacked to include a +pubring=$people line. The script gives you a keyid, which you can then use to filter on, ie: :0BW * -----BEGIN PGP KEYID=|sender_unknown # the sender unknown script is below :0: ? [ $KEYID = (`cat .buddies`) ] | /var/spool/mail/adam :0e: junk #!/bin/sh # unknown returns a keyid, exits 1 if the key is known # $output is to get the exit status. Othierwise, this would be a one liner. OUTPUT=`pgp -f +VERBOSE=0 +batchmode -o /dev/null` echo $OUTPUT | egrep -s 'not found in file' EV=$? if [ $EV -eq 0 ]; then echo $OUTPUT | awk '{print $6}' fi exit $EV -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume