Re: Gnus & GnuPG.

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Mattias Ahnberg <mattias@ahnberg.pp.se> writes:

> >> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <sj@extundo.com> writes:
> 
> SJ> Try OGnus, and put $gnus/contrib in your load-path to make Gnus find
> SJ> gpg.el.  OGnus have integrated PGP/SMIME support, but make use of
> SJ> external libraries (mailcrypt or, preferrably, gpg.el).
> 
> Hmm, might be working a little bit better, but at the same time not. I
> might on the other hand be missing some configuration directives or
> so, gpg.el isn't really to heavily documented. :)
> 
> Am I supposed to be using both mailcrypt and gpg.el? Or just gpg.el,
> if I can? If I chose just to use gpg.el, what do I need to configure
> to be able to sign, encrypt, verify and check stuff?

There is a node called "Using GPG" in gnus.texi.  (It was not listed
in the Top node. I've fixed it.)

> The main problem I seem to be having when using mailcrypt is that
> people sending signed mails to me, using for example Mutt, seem to be
> sending the mails as a multipart MIME mail, and mailcrypt doesn't seem
> to figure this out.

> The mails I send to him that I sign looks peachy for him though, and
> the mails I send to myself works neat. But not from other
> programs. Perhaps just his mutt that is wrongly configured to send it
> like that? I'm pretty new to this signing/encrypting mail things, so
> I am not really sure where to start digging around.

The default setting of mutt is somewhat wrong for using GnuPG. Mutt
wrongfully sets micalg to pgp-md5, but GnuPG uses SHA1 as the default
value.

ShengHuo

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