On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Sameer R. Manek wrote:

Does anyone know of an addon to the Pine mailer that supports PGP? the only PGP software i could find required me to first compose a letter in an editor then run it through a pgp signature program then finally read it into my favorite mailer.

I'm looking for something that is hopefully transparent, or if not relatively quick to do.

Yes, and me too. Someone sent me a package that relied upon reconfiguring Pine using the alternate editor option as a hook and it has never worked well. This is important. I am trying to convince my co-workers to start using PGP regularly and an easy interface may not be one of the best arguments to make (for encrypting regularly) but it's one that works on lots of people. =========================================================================== Henry W. Farkas | Me? Speak for IBM? Fat chance. hfarkas@ims.advantis.com |------------------------------------------------ hfarkas@vnet.ibm.com | http://newstand.ims.advantis.com/henry henry@nhcc.com | http://www.nhcc.com/~henry --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP 6.2.2 Key fingerprint: AA D0 F5 44 C1 8C 11 52 B3 80 34 1C CE 38 EC 53 Public key at: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu, and other popular key servers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by Henry's Hardware: Home of the Pretty Good Hack "We're not fast, but it's not bad, and we're cheaper than the guy down the street!" ===========================================================================

On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Sameer R. Manek wrote:

Does anyone know of an addon to the Pine mailer that supports PGP? the only PGP software i could find required me to first compose a letter in an editor then run it through a pgp signature program then finally read it into my favorite mailer.

I'm looking for something that is hopefully transparent, or if not relatively quick to do.

R.A. Hayden has posted this to the list before. I also recall Raph Levien's premail, but I don't know if it works for PINE, any satisfied customers out there?. I admit I haven't tried either of these myself, though I would be interested in the results of a *Cypherpunks sign with PINE* comparison of the various solutions for PGP integration into PINE. I might even be persuaded to beginning signing my posts to the list. :-) C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy" \ / - Watson & Crick <cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove ( \ Finger for public key \ ) Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / ) After a couple of comments, I've updated Pinesign to a new version. This new version adds the ability to choose whether your ascii signature (ie $HOME/.signature) is added. Some mail servers get confused by extra text, so the ability to make sure nothing extra is added was requested. Basically, if you want to sign the message both digitally and asciilly (is that a word :-), just press return twice after you exit your composing editor. Otherwise, make the selections you want specific to the type of message you are sending. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= #!/bin/sh # PINESIGN v2.0 # Written by: Robert A. Hayden <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu> # PINESIGN is a simple program that will allow you to automatically sign # your email and news messages composed with the Pine 3.89 mail reader. It # may also work with other mail and news programs, but it has not been # tested. # INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONFIGURING PINE # # You need to define the following options in Pine. This can be done # either via the SETUP options in the main menu of Pine, or via editing # the .pinerc. # # A) signature-file=" " (an empty space) # B) enable-alternate-editor-cmd # C) enable-alternate-editor-implicitly (optional but recommended) # D) signature-at-bottom # E) editor=<exact path to this script> # INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONFIGURING PINESIGN # # The PGP program must be in your path, and the PGPPATH environment # variable must be defined. See the PGP documentation for details. # # Double check that the first line of this program points to sh. # # Edit the SIGPATH and PINEEDITOR variables to point at your signature # (if any) and the editor you wish to use for your Pine mail. Default # signature will be the file .signature in your $HOME directory. # Default editor is pico -z -t. SIGPATH=$HOME/.signature-pine PINEEDITOR='pico -z -t' # INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING PINESIGN # # When you compose a message, you will compose your message as normal. # # When you exit your editor (control-X in Pico), you will receive a prompt # asking if you wish to add your signature file to the message. If you # respond with y, Y or just press return, your text signature file (often # $HOME/.signature) will be appended to your message. If you type # anything else, your message will not have your signature added. # # Next, you will be prompted as to whether you wish to PGP sign your # message. If you answer with y, Y or return, you will be prompted for your # PGP passphrase and then dumped back to the address/subject section of # Pine. If you type anything else, your message will not be signed. # # If you selected it to be added, your .signature file will be appended # AFTER your digital signature. # # If you have not defined your alternate editor to be run implicitly, you # will need to start it manually. If you do not run the alternate editor, # your .signature file will not be appended and you will also have to do # that manually. It is highly recommended that your define your alternate # editor to run implicitly. ### DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING ### $PINEEDITOR $1 clear echo -n "Would you like to add your ASCII signature to this message? [y] " read SIG echo " " echo -n "Would you like to sign this message with your PGP signature? [y] " read PGP if [ "$PGP" = "y" ] then pgp -sat +comment="PGP Signed with PineSign 2.0" $1 mv $1.asc $1 fi if [ "$PGP" = "Y" ] then pgp -sat +comment="PGP Signed with PineSign 2.0" $1 mv $1.asc $1 fi if [ "$PGP" = "" ] then pgp -sat +comment="PGP Signed with PineSign 2.0" $1 mv $1.asc $1 fi if [ "$SIG" = "y" ] then echo " " >> $1 cat $SIGPATH >> $1 fi if [ "$SIG" = "Y" ] then echo " " >> $1 cat $SIGPATH >> $1 fi if [ "$SIG" = "" ] then echo " " >> $1 cat $SIGPATH >> $1 fi