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                      2: the following are the perl programs i use to integrate pgp with mail
                      3: and tin (my newsreader of choice). they seem to work pretty well, but
                      4: they are hacks first & foremost, so you'll have to tweak them to get
                      5: them to work on your system. if you come up with any improvements
                      6: i'd appreciate a copy. other than that, do with 'em what you will.
                      7: 
                      8: these are the programs:
                      9:    morepgp: a pipe and wrapper for more (or your standard pager) which
                     10:             extracts PGP blocks and runs them through PGP.
                     11:    mailpgp: a wrapper for vi (or your standard visual editor) which
                     12:             gives the user the option of signing & encrypting a message
                     13:             when they finish editing it.
                     14:    postpgp: another vi wrapper, which only gives the option of signing
                     15:             a message & handles environment variables slightly differently
                     16:             since tin doesn't have a set of its own.
                     17: 
                     18: installing with mail:
                     19:    in your .mailrc, set the mail PAGER variable to morepgp, and the
                     20:    VISUAL variable to mailpgp. make sure both programs are in your
                     21:    path (or their paths are fully specified in the vars) and that the
                     22:    #! lines correctly point to perl on your system.
                     23: 
                     24: installing with tin (may apply to other newsreaders too, but no guarantees):
                     25:    write a shell wrapper for your newsreader that sets the variable
                     26:    VISUALBAK from $VISUAL and sets VISUAL to postpgp before calling
                     27:    the newsreader. the newsreader will then call postpgp whenever you
                     28:    edit a new post, allowing you the opportunity to sign the message
                     29:    before sending it.
                     30: 
                     31: bugs:
                     32:    mailpgp & postpgp only sign/encrypt the -last- item on the
                     33:    command line. this isn't normally a problem since i never edit
                     34:    more than one file for news or mail. if it is for you, change 'em
                     35:    & send me updates.
                     36: 

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