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Like a few other people, I occaionally (very occasionally) receive encrypted emails. So far that was not a big deal, because mutt can automatically decrypt these emails, and also search in encrypted emails (by decrypting them first). However I plan to change my email setup in the near future, and allow other programs (like Thunderbird or a mobile client) access as well. This does not work well if the emails are still encrypted. Besides, the emails reside on an encrypted filesystem, there is no need for another layer of encryption on disk.

By default, the OpenPGP extension in Thunderbird (Enigmail) sends every encrypted mail as inline text, not as an attachment. Mutt as example does not recognize the encrypted mail but just displays the unreadable binary stuff.

Finally, after (I think) 13 years, I switched my mail user agent from pine to mutt. Not that I like the latter more, it has other problems and/or ways of handling mails which I don’t like. But the (non-existent) pgp support in pine drove me crazy. After configuring a while around, more than 300 .muttrc config lines and some Perl scripts to create send-hooks from nicely configured roles later, I have almost the same behaviour like before.

Wir wollen bei unseren Einladungen fertige Rückantwortkarten beilegen, bei denen die Gäste, die zur Hochzeit kommen wollen, nur noch ein paar Daten eintragen müssen.