Re: Mutt inserts escape characters

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:36:21 GMT

On 20 Sep 2004 05:38:48 -0700, David Dombrowsky
<davek@csh.rit.edu> wrote:

> I have a message-hook to grep for "BEGIN PGP..." messages and
> run them through gpg before display. This works fine for most
> messages, but I've come across an interesting quirk where, if
> the message containes lines which begin with the pipe character
> (|), mutt (or something) will insered an escape code before
> the pipe (like <ESC>[0m). This changes the message, and the
> signature comes up as bad. If I run the original message
> through gpg, it's fine.
>
> I've looked through the docs, but I can't find anything about
> this. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> -Dave

Look in your mutt docs for the *pgp* listings in /examples.
On Debian Linux, that would be:

/usr/share/doc/mutt/examples.

Please don't use PGP on the Usenet. Not one in 10,000 people use
the software on the Usenet, because it is just stupid here.

I use it for important email, but never on the Usenet, where they
just clutters up people's posts and makes the person using them
look like stupid egomaniacs.

May as well say: "I'm an ***", because most of the people
using pgp sigs on the Usenet do so because they were so abusive
to someone(s) that their victims resorted to forging their
alias to get back at them.

I don't trust *any* pgp key without carefully researching it.
Nor does anyone who really understands how pgp works.

Too easy to get a dozen keys under a dozen different names and
have them sign each other, etc.

I have ignored "Igor Ivanov's" post (on comp.mail.mutt and from a
Peruvian ISP) because my newsfilter tells me that he is using a
pgp sig.

AC

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