<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Thanks Olaf and Carlos for the recommendations (topal and ppf scripts).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'll give them a try!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I run my own patched alpine as it is, so i don't mind patching it further if necessary to get the PGP/MIME support.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">Carl</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 15:26 Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info <<a href="mailto:alpine-info@u.washington.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">alpine-info@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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El 2024-04-08 a las 13:09 +0200, Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info escribió:<br>
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> Hi Carl,<br>
><br>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 11:09, Carl Edquist via Alpine-info wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I'm curious if there is a recommended way to get PGP working with<br>
>> Alpine, to read and send PGP encrypted mails?<br>
>><br>
>> Eduardo or anyone else here gotten this working?<br>
><br>
> I use PGP in Alpine with Topal. This works well so far.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://green-pike.co.uk/topal/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://green-pike.co.uk/topal/</a><br>
><br>
> I use both programs (Alpine and Topal) from the Debian sources.<br>
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I use ppf_ scripts or filters, from dougb (Douglas Barton):<br>
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<a href="http://dougbarton.us/PGP/scripts/ppf/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dougbarton.us/PGP/scripts/ppf/</a> and/or<br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/dougb/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/dougb/</a><br>
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> There is only one issue: As installed from the Debian sources, Topal<br>
> works only for PGP/Inline.<br>
><br>
> Most of the people I know using PGP use PGP/MIME. This seems to be the<br>
> standard now, Thunderbird for instance has dropped support of<br>
> PGP/Inline some time ago. It is a little complicated to decrypt these<br>
> messages, especially when there are attachments included.<br>
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Yes, this is indeed an issue.<br>
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Alpine does not recognize signatures made by Thunderbird, and the other <br>
way around. In fact, people ask what is that stuff (text) in the middle of <br>
the email.<br>
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> There is a patch for Alpine described in the Topal documentation to<br>
> make it capable of PGP/MIME. Since I use Alpine on several systems, I<br>
> very much like to stick with the distributed version (here Debian<br>
> stable with Alpine 2.26). I therefore never tried to install the<br>
> patch. An native Alpine with support of PGP/MIME would be great!<br>
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Topal is available on openSUSE:<br>
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Telcontar:~ # zypper info Topal<br>
...<br>
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Information for package topal:<br>
- ------------------------------<br>
Repository : EXT: Packman Repository<br>
Name : topal<br>
Version : 76-150500.4.pm.5<br>
Arch : x86_64<br>
Vendor : <a href="http://packman.links2linux.de" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://packman.links2linux.de</a><br>
Installed Size : 2.1 MiB<br>
Installed : No<br>
Status : not installed<br>
Source package : topal-76-150500.4.pm.5.src<br>
Upstream URL : <a href="https://zircon.org.uk/topal/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://zircon.org.uk/topal/</a><br>
Summary : A tool to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify emails<br>
Description :<br>
Topal is a "glue" program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine.<br>
It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify emails.<br>
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Telcontar:~ #<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Carlos E. R.<br>
(from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)<br>
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