#!/bin/bash

# An attempt to make viewing PGP/MIME messages in Pine not so difficult.
# Basically, this script must be run as a pipe from the Pine message viewer.
# (Make sure you tell Pine to give it the raw text rather that what's shown!)
# It doesn't actually output the message text, but rather uses
# pgp-mime-handler.pl (many thanks to David Guembel!) to decipher the message
# (and all its parts) and verify the signature, outputting it to a simple mbox
# file that Pine can read.

# Unfortunately this is not the most secure thing, as it actually writes
# unencrypted mail to the disk, but Pine is too stupid to accept a filter that
# actually modifies the raw message (it displays any output from a filter as
# message text, rather than interpreting all the MIME properties properly).
# So, be sure at least to delete the message or the mailbox when you're
# finished reading it.  If you're really paranoid, overwrite it with zeros
# or random data first. :)

echo "From john@supernova `date`" > $HOME/mail/temp
pgp-mime-handler.pl <&0 >> $HOME/mail/temp

echo "Now look in the 'temp' mailbox for your message."