On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, Eric Johnson wrote:

[...] So perhaps I could just download my inbox, but then sending the mail messages may be difficult, since their is no place I can just send them. [...] I figure yo could just upload a file with all of your replies and new mail, and then have a script mail each of those letters. That way my secret key stay on my home system, very safe, and I can use emacs to answer read and encrypt all my mail with ease.

Using kermit & Co, and then a script to transfer files composed and signed at home for mailing from your internet account is too tedious. But I believe you mentioned you are using Linux on your PC. Sooo, here are two solutions that should work in any real (non-Microsoft) window system: 1) Compose and sign each message on the PC. Then, while on-line with the remote computer, cut and paste the already-signed message directly into the remote mail line editor. (Cutting and pasting in such a way sometimes gets you in trouble with various buffering bugs, but you'll quickly figure out how much text you can paste at a time. Once a piece of text is signed, make sure you don't introduce more spaces, blank lines and such !) Once you have cut-and-paste running, it should not matter on which system you read your mail, on which one you compose new messages, or on which one you sign. Cutting and pasting very long messages will still be a pain. 2) Use a mud client (or similar) instead of kermit to connect to the remote system. Sending mail is then done by using the usual commands to get the remote system into the mailer line editor and then using a client macro of some sort to sign, transfer and send a message prepared locally. This solution will require some programming (very little on Linux, maybe quite a bit on a MacIntosh). Pierre Uszynski pierre@shell.portal.com