S/MIME for mutt under Debian Linux
I use mutt for e-mail. "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less."
I use the Debian distribution because upgrade and maintenance is a BREEZE in Debian and it just seems to make the most sense.
I use gpg for encryption. Mutt handles this VERY well. Unfortunately, some people choose to use a mail client that sucks more than mutt. Many of these clients can only understand S/MIME encrypted mail, and not PGP/MIME or OpenPGP encrypted mail. I don't like this. This means I either have to train my friends, family and coworkers and how to encrypt and decrypt PGP/GPG based messages or not send them encrypted mail. Even if I could train them all... what if they don't feel like using it? I would prefer to be able to use S/MIME encryption when required, and still continue to use mutt for all my e-mail needs. Using two clients is out of the question.
There is this: http://elmy.myip.org/mutt/smime.html
It is a set of patches to the mutt-1.3.17 source to allow mutt to speak S/MIME as seamlessly as it does PGP/MIME. This would theoretically solve my problems. Unfortunately, the Installation instructions for this patch are non-exisitant.
My question is two fold:
1) Would anyone be willing to walk me through applying this patch to the mutt source in order to get something that will compile with S/MIME support?
2) Would anyone that knows how to create Debian packages be willing to walk me through how to do it once I get this compiling properly?
I use the Debian distribution because upgrade and maintenance is a BREEZE in Debian and it just seems to make the most sense.
I use gpg for encryption. Mutt handles this VERY well. Unfortunately, some people choose to use a mail client that sucks more than mutt. Many of these clients can only understand S/MIME encrypted mail, and not PGP/MIME or OpenPGP encrypted mail. I don't like this. This means I either have to train my friends, family and coworkers and how to encrypt and decrypt PGP/GPG based messages or not send them encrypted mail. Even if I could train them all... what if they don't feel like using it? I would prefer to be able to use S/MIME encryption when required, and still continue to use mutt for all my e-mail needs. Using two clients is out of the question.
There is this: http://elmy.myip.org/mutt/smime.html
It is a set of patches to the mutt-1.3.17 source to allow mutt to speak S/MIME as seamlessly as it does PGP/MIME. This would theoretically solve my problems. Unfortunately, the Installation instructions for this patch are non-exisitant.
My question is two fold:
1) Would anyone be willing to walk me through applying this patch to the mutt source in order to get something that will compile with S/MIME support?
2) Would anyone that knows how to create Debian packages be willing to walk me through how to do it once I get this compiling properly?
