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So, I am wondering if anyone else has this problem. Whenever I receive an email from someone using Thunderbird that has been signed or encrypted via GPG is not automatically decrypted. In fact, it doesn’t even show it as GPG signed or encrypted. It is like mutt is oblivious to this even though it is right there, —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– is not shown by mutt as signed.

By way of comparison I have opened the same emails with evolution and they show up as being properly signed and/or encrypted.

To try and solve this I have scoured google and gotten two known working sample GPG configs for mutt from two different people and put them in place with my key. No change.

Any thoughts?

I read an article in Linux Journal about mutt. It made me curious. So I thought I would give it a shot. I was actually quite scared. I had heard horror stories of it being an unintuitive interface. You also had to set up an MTA on your own machine. The likelihood was, you’d get hurt and after your arm snapped and you owed the hospitals thousands of dollars you would curse mutt’s name as the cause of all your woes.

So I installed mutt last night. Not hard. In addition to it not being hard it was actually kinda easy. The interface is actually rather intuitive to follow and navigate. If you got lost your can type ‘?’ at any time to get a list of commands available in that section.

Admittedly this is a hasty judgement but I am actually really liking mutt. It is an easy to use lightweight mail client that can be anything you want it to be.

Tutorial I used to install: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565326
mutt online text manual: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual.txt
A simple down-to-earth explanation of what mutt is: http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/

So, one thing that I love about the Gnome Desktop is that my calendar is right there with the date and time applet and that I can easily see what I have going on. But, I have the laptop, desktop and a phone, and they all have to have the same calendar. When they don’t match, I end up double booking something and the world melts down.

So, question to the lazy web: Can Evolution sync to itself or, can evolution be set up to a Server/Client situation where a master calendar could be held there and the individual machines would sync with that calendar?

That would make life awesome.

I think that we have all used various mail clients in our time. I am just a fan of the conversations and labeling that comes with gmail, and I use their web interface most often. But, there are still those times when a mail client will be best, like when you want to sign your email with your gpg key.
So I have been using evolution because it came with ubuntu, and I actually like it quite a bit. But my friend Trevor swears by Thunderbird so, I thought that I would give it a shot. Thunderbird is clean, easy to use, pretty easy to configure, and seems to work rather well. I like the way that the labeling feature works in it. But then that is all, email is the beginning, middle and end of Thunderbird. What about my calender, tasks, reminders, etc.? One of my only real reasons to use these clients is the calender and Mozilla hasn’t even made an attempt. I just can’t get over this. Nearly ever other client that I have ever used has some sort of calender function. And Evolution is integrated into the gnome desktop, making reminders, tasks, schedules, quick and accessible.
Continuing on, I can’t sign an email with my gpg key unless I install something else. Evolution has that built in.
In short, I will stick with Evolution. I would love to see Thunderbird have a full client that would rival Outlook, getting M$ Windows users to have a little more open source on their system.
When it all comes down to it though, all I hear is that I should use Mutt.