Enhanced-mailgate and pgp?

RT Users
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Heya,

the README for the enhanced-mailgate says that, for the enhanced mailgate
to work, “you need to configure gpg’s keyring for the user the mailgate
runs as with the public keys of all your technical folks.”

and users need to “ign your messages with standard PGP/MIME signatures.”

I have 2 questions. 1) the enhanced-mailgate is a perl script. Where
does it go? 2) do I need to worry about the pgp stuff? can’t I just
deal with it the way it is? Or do I have to make everyone in my dept
start signing their messages now?

thanx,

Sheeri Kritzer
Systems Administrator
University Systems Group
Tufts University
617-627-3925
sheeri.kritzer@tufts.edu

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the README for the enhanced-mailgate says that, for the enhanced mailgate
to work, “you need to configure gpg’s keyring for the user the mailgate
runs as with the public keys of all your technical folks.”

and users need to “ign your messages with standard PGP/MIME signatures.”

I have 2 questions. 1) the enhanced-mailgate is a perl script. Where
does it go? 2) do I need to worry about the pgp stuff? can’t I just

Same place as the current mailgate, and you’ll need to change your aliases
(etc) to match.

deal with it the way it is? Or do I have to make everyone in my dept
start signing their messages now?

The PGP warnings are if you wish to use PGP. As far as I know, enhanced
mailgate will work without requiring PGP.

Regards,

                         Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
               Systems/Network Engineer                             NCC
             www.ripe.net - PGP562C8B1B                      Operations
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Campbell [mailto:bruce_campbell@ripe.net]

the README for the enhanced-mailgate says that, for the
enhanced mailgate
to work, “you need to configure gpg’s keyring for the user
the mailgate
runs as with the public keys of all your technical folks.”

and users need to “ign your messages with standard PGP/MIME
signatures.”

I have 2 questions. 1) the enhanced-mailgate is a perl
script. Where
does it go? 2) do I need to worry about the pgp stuff?
can’t I just

Same place as the current mailgate, and you’ll need to change
your aliases
(etc) to match.

deal with it the way it is? Or do I have to make everyone
in my dept
start signing their messages now?

The PGP warnings are if you wish to use PGP. As far as I
know, enhanced
mailgate will work without requiring PGP.

Can anyone confirm or deny Bruce’s statement?

I, like Sheeri, read the above and figured it meant the enhanced mailgate
required the use of PGP. The prospect of trying to get 650 people to
start using PGP was enough to put me off my dreams of using the enhanced
mailgate. If PGP is just an option and not a necessity, I’d like to try the
thing out.
Kendric Beachey

4

“Beachey, Kendric” wrote:

Can anyone confirm or deny Bruce’s statement?

I, like Sheeri, read the above and figured it meant the enhanced mailgate
required the use of PGP. The prospect of trying to get 650 people to
start using PGP was enough to put me off my dreams of using the enhanced
mailgate. If PGP is just an option and not a necessity, I’d like to try the
thing out.

Kendric Beachey

Well, as far as I understood, You could use the enhanced mailgate
without pgp, but then You couldn’t use much of it’s enhancements, except
if You allow everything to ‘erveryone’.

H.

Harald Wagener | Systemadministrator
FCB/Wilkens GmbH | Tel.:+49-40-2881-1252
An der Alster 42 | Fax.:+49-40-2881-1263
20099 Hamburg | http://www.fcb-wilkens.com

5

I, like Sheeri, read the above and figured it meant the enhanced mailgate
required the use of PGP. The prospect of trying to get 650 people to
start using PGP was enough to put me off my dreams of using the enhanced
mailgate. If PGP is just an option and not a necessity, I’d like to try the
thing out.

If you want enhanced mailgate to process the commands, you need PGP as the
code is supplied. If you don’t use PGP, it will still happily work like
regular Mailgate.

( I’ll bet that our userbase that we’d love to get using PGP is
significantly larger than 650, although thats entirely seperate to RT )

Note that the code within enhanced mailgate is fairly clean, so commenting
out the PGP-specific parts would be trivial.

Regards,

                         Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
               Systems/Network Engineer                             NCC
             www.ripe.net - PGP562C8B1B                      Operations