Subject: pine 3.93 with premail 0.43

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Jun 1996 23:39:14 -0400

Just wondering if anyone out there has gotten these two progams to "play nice" together under Linux 1.2.13 (or any other OS for that matter)?

if you have, please describe exactly what steps you took to arrive at such a happy union... because I am at my wit's end here.

info on premail can be found at http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html

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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 12 Jun 1996 15:04:22 GMT

>Just wondering if anyone out there has gotten these two progams to "play nice" together under Linux 1.2.13 (or any other OS for that matter)?

I have done it under Irix5.3 (Pine 3.93) and it worked out very nicely.
Although I do not use premail any more.  To find out what I use now, 
please visit my web page (www.pharm.med.uc.edu/~yuan/pine_pgp.html).

>if you have, please describe exactly what steps you took to arrive at such 
>a happy union... because I am at my wit's end here.
>

It is hard for us to guess what is wrong if you do not tell more about it.
I remember that one has to make the perl script executable, preferrably by
you only (for security), and you have to enter your own ID in the script
before using it, or the default name will be used and cause you a lot of
confusion.  I remember that premail can chain the email through remailers
to hide your identity in addition to PGP operations.  It is very handy for
those who want to avoid persecutions while doing constructive things, or to 
spam some open mailing lists, threatening, insulting, or trick other people, 
or newsgroups for any or no reason.  I tested this feature but never found 
a use for it so far.

Jie
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From: Andy Dustman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 12:11:12 -0400

> info on premail can be found at http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html

I did exactly what it said to do in the premail release notes: You have to
set the sendmail-path variable in your .pinerc (you *cannot* set it within
pine's configuration screen; it isn't there) to the path of your premail
with some options for to be passed to the real sendmail. After that, you
will need to configure customized-hdrs in pine to include some of the
headers that premail wants: Sign, Chain, Anon-From, Anon-Reply-To appear to 
be the relevant ones, but I have only used Sign and Chain so far. You will
need to use the Rich Header command (^R) in the header when composing. 
The release notes *are* a bit vague on how to decode. The easiest way is to
pipe (|) to the command "premail -decode". I have only been using premail
for a few days and it makes life with PGP a lot easier. 

FYI, this is under Linux 2.0, but should work as well under 1.2.13.

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From: Tony Costa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:25:42 -0400 (EDT)

What is it that is giving you problems?
I was able to setup Pine 3.91 and Linux 1.2.13 rather nicely, with one 
small problem that I am not sure is really Pine's fault.
With my current in house SMTP gateway I cannot reply where the From: is 
picked up. I getan error like no recipients to reply to!
This seams to be caused by the fact that there is an X-Status value that 
precedes the From: header.
Anyone know how to configure Pine to compensate for this?
Thanks,