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Comment by nilved | Hacker News Reader

I was actually just trying to set up mutt with GPG a few moments ago. As a person who hadn't used GPG before, yes, it is a nightmare. Email encryption and signing should be common --- more common than not --- and the most prevalent tool for doing so being so daunting isn't helping.

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Ironically, GPG setup in mutt is extremely easy if you use the GPGME library integration:

    set crypt_use_gpgme=yes

The documentation does not seem to stress that GPGME is favored over the old pgp_* settings (which are typically cargo-culted), but it should.

The author mentions GPGME in the article, but only to shrug it off as "too big". Given the fact that devices like the raspberry pi now run full Linux distributions, I'd say it's a weak argument.

Thanks for sharing that config line. I had quite a few of those pgp_* lines in my muttconfig and had never seen anything about the correct/modern setting.

What did you have trouble setting up? Creating a key and informing mutt is fairly straightforward. What errors did you run into?

Configuring GPG and Thunderbird is brain dead easy.

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