[851] in Cypherpunks
Re: HELP: pgp, .forward, mh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stig)
Fri Jun 4 13:09:05 1993
From: stig@netcom.com (Stig)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 09:58:26 PDT
In-Reply-To: Karl Barrus <elee9sf@Menudo.UH.EDU> (on Jun 3, 9:04am)
To: Karl Barrus <elee9sf@Menudo.UH.EDU>, cypherpunks@toad.com
To quote: Karl Barrus <elee9sf@Menudo.UH.EDU>
Regarding: HELP: pgp, .forward, mh
>
>
> Situation: I'd like mail that arrives at my other account to be
> encrypted and then forwarded to this account. I have spent a few
> hours trying various things and nothing seems to work.
>
> I've tried this as my .forward file:
>
> "| /myhome/pgp -fea barrus | mail elee9sf@menudo.uh.edu"
>
> but all that arrives at elee9sf is a blank message.
>
> I've tried
>
> "| /myhome/remail.script"
>
The problem is that when sendmail executes your filter, your
environment is all messed up. HOME and USER aren't even initialized.
PATH is probably /bin:/usr/bin.
>
> So, if that's impossible, how do I get my elee9sf account to do it? I
> use mh on menudo, and have tried
>
> to barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu | A "/path/pgp -fea barrus | /path/rvcstore +tonext"
This works when you send mail to yourself because your environment
gets passed along to your mail filter.
Here's a good wrapper script to use ....
#!/bin/sh
HOME=YOUR-DIRECTORY
PGPPATH=YOUR-PGP-DIRECTORY
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc
export HOME PATH PGPPATH
cd $HOME
exec >> $HOME/Inbox/FILTERLOG 2>&1 # this logs error messages so
# that you can learn from them
FF=/tmp/FILTER.$$
touch $FF
chmod 600 $FF
(tee $FF; echo '') >> Inbox/everything # this saves your mail in case
# it gets dropped on the floor
PGP COMMAND GOES HERE
rm $FF
exit 0
/* Jonathan Stigelman, Stig@netcom.com, PGP public key by finger */
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