undertakingyou

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/