[Alpine-info] PGP encryption in Alpine?

[Adrian C. via Alpine-info]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, Carl Edquist via Alpine-info wrote:


> I'm curious if there is a recommended way to get PGP working with 

> Alpine, to read and send PGP encrypted mails?


Inline is simple. For multipart I used it with Topal for over a decade 
sucesfully.

Two Topal patches are applied to Alpine sources and then here's the 
shortest tutorial on what you actually need to use it (dos2unix, 
metamail...):

https://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/archives/2009/06/24/notes_on_alpine_and_gnupg/index.html


However around 2021 with Alpine 2.24 it no longer worked as seemlessly 
as it used to when opening multipart messages. No longer was I seeing 
"Good signature" automatically displayed... I had to start exporting 
message to a file then running topal on it manually. I don't know what 
changed in Alpine back then, maybe it was fixed since.