Teaching Mutt about the wonders of Microsoft

Normally, I cryptographically sign all my outgoing emails with GnuPG. Unfortunately, Outlook Express does not handle those signature attachments all too well. It has even gone so far as to mark those attachments as unsafe (as relayed to me in a recent email).

So, I have come up with the following additions to my mutt config file to handle this situation:

message-hook ~A "set pgp_autosign"
message-hook "~h 'X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express'" "set nopgp_autosign"

Unfortunately, to make sure this is used, I need to be reading the message when I reply to it, instead of just hitting the reply key in the header list.

True, I could tell mutt to use the old-style cryptographic signatures (with pgp_create_traditional), but I feel like I am trying to make a point here. :)

3 Comments

sorry, but it seesm that it does not working on Outlook express 5.01. Or it's just my mistacke?

I do agree it doesn't work with 5.01

I's not a mistake, it doesn't work with 5.01

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