Exmh Stopped Using PGP

[Brent Welch]

If PGP doesn't show up, then exmh cannot find a good pgp program
on your PATH.  That would imply that /usr/local/bin/pgp5 doesn't
work any more.  Is it as simple as that?

>>>Dave Tweten said:
 > Please help me figure out why Exmh stopped working with PGP 5 on my 
system
 > a few days ago.
 > 
 > A few days ago, Exmh just suddenly stopped interfacing with PGP5 on my 
 > FreeBSD 4.9 system.  It happened as I was updating some FreeBSD ports 
 > utilities I use, but Exmh was not one of them, though tcl, tk, and 
 > metamail were.
 > 
 > Yes, I know that the FreeBSD ports have stopped supporting PGP5, but I 
 > have resolutely refuesd to let ports processing remove pgp5 from my 
 > system.  And Exmh has not stopped supporting PGP5.  One of these days, 
 > I'll get around to switching over to GPG, but in the meantime I need to 
 > continue to be able to read PGP encrypted e-mail.
 > 
 > The FreeBSD ports that were being updated as Exmh chose not to use PGP 
 > were:
 > 
 >         + lang/python (python-2.3.3_2)
 >         + lang/tcl84 (tcl-8.4.5,1)
 >         + security/pidentd (pidentd-2.8.5)
 >         + audio/libaudiofile (libaudiofile-0.2.5)
 >         + audio/esound (esound-0.2.32_1)
 >         + graphics/libmng (libmng-1.0.5_1)
 >         + x11-toolkits/tk84 (tk-8.4.5,1)
 >         + devel/t1lib (t1lib-5.0.0_1)
 >         + misc/gnomehier (gnomehier-1.0_13)
 >         + print/lyx (lyx-1.3.3_1)
 >         + mail/metamail (metamail-2.7_1)
 >         + devel/gnomevfs2 (gnomevfs2-2.4.2_1)
 >         + graphics/gimp-devel (gimp-2.0.pre3_1,1)
 >         + x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 (py23-gtk-2.0.0_1)
 >         + editors/AbiWord2 (AbiWord2-2.0.3_2)
 >         + x11-toolkits/gtksourceview (gtksourceview-0.7.0_1)
 > 
 > An "ls -l /usr/local/bin/pgp*" yields:
 > 
 > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  717645 May  3  2003 /usr/local/bin/pgp5*
 > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       4 May  3  2003 /usr/local/bin/pgpe@ -> 
pgp5
 > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  718009 May  3  2003 /usr/local/bin/pgpk*
 > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       4 May  3  2003 /usr/local/bin/pgpo@ -> 
pgp5
 > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       4 May  3  2003 /usr/local/bin/pgps@ -> 
pgp5
 > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       4 May  3  2003 /usr/local/bin/pgpv@ -> 
pgp5
 > 
 > An "fgrep pgp /usr/local/bin/exmh" yields:
 > 
 > set pgp(gpg,path) /usr/local/bin
 > set pgp(pgp,path) /usr/local/bin
 > set pgp(pgp5,path) /usr/local/bin
 > set pgp(pgp6,path) /usr/local/bin
 > 
 > An "fgrep pgp ~/.exmh/exmh-defaults" yields:
 > 
 > *pgpSeditPgp:   0
 > *pgpSeditPgpExtras:     0
 > *pgpSign:       none
 > *pgpEncrypt:    0
 > *pgpFormat:     pm
 > *pgpVersion:    pgp5
 > *pgpNoVersion:  pgp5
 > *pgpKeepPass:   1
 > *pgpEchoPass:   1
 > *pgpGrabFocus:  1
 > *pgpPassTimeout:        60
 > *pgpExtPass:    0
 > *pgpGetExtCmd:  /usr/bin/q-client get %s
 > *pgpDelExtCmd:  /usr/bin/q-client delete %s
 > *pgp5Rfc822:    0
 > *pgp5ChooseKey: 0
 > *pgp5UseExpectk:        1
 > *pgp5CacheIds:  persistent
 > *pgp5MinMatch:  75
 > *pgp5ShowInline:        signed
 > *pgp5ShortMessages:     1
 > *pgp5AutoExtract:       0
 > *pgp5KeyServer: pgp-public-keys at keys.pgp.net
 > *pgp5KeyQueryMethod:    hkp
 > *pgp5HKPKeyServerUrl:   pgpkeys.mit.edu
 > *pgp5KeyServerURL:      http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&se
ar
 > ch=0x%s
 > *pgp5KeyOtherMethod:    pgpk -a hkp://pgpkeys.hq.nasa.gov/$id > $tmp
 > 
 > Yet, the Exmh Preferences menu shows no PGP options at all, the Exmh 
mail
 > display function shows no inclination to resolve signatures or offer 
 > decryption, and the simple editor offers no signature or encryption 
 > options.  My guess is that something has become corrupted in 
 > ~/.exmh/exmh-defaults, but I haven't a clue what.
 > 
 > Any help will be appreciated.
 > -- 
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ov
 > NASA Ames Research Center    | 41 B0 89 0A  8F 94 6C 59|     (650) 
604-4416
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604-4377
 > Not an official NASA position.  You can't even be certain who sent this!
 > 
 > 
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