I use metamutt to separate mailing list digests into individual messages for ease of reading. However digest software strips almost all headers from messages, including the MIME encoding details. This becomes a problem if you wish to verify the integrity of a message that has been digitally signed.

This annoyance led me to create digest2mime.sh a little script to put back the MIME headers (or at least a guess for what they should be) and allow me to verify signatures.

To use you will need to patch metamutt (sig) so that it uses digest2mime.sh, and then you are all set!

Here is some Email related software.

(Copied from my mutt page) Digital Signatures. Email is one of the easiest things to forge on the 'net, and yet we use it to conduct business. The easiest way around the problem is to use digital signatures [1][2][3]. However if this is to work you need to verify the messages received, but equivalently if you are on mailing lists you don't want your public keyring to become bloated with the keys of people you don't know.

I got around this by telling GPG to automatically download new keys when it needs to and to use a different keyring (mutt-pubring.gpg) to store them. This is all done in the simple script muttgpg.

I then simply changed all the gpg calls in my gpg.rc to muttgpg and Bjorn Stronginthearm is your uncle. :-)

The benefits of subversion mean that these tools are now obsolete.

map is nothing other than a way for me to download the latest satellite photo of Australia and put it as my background image. As the cloud cover changes every day, so does my background!

Something of interest might be the way of controlling the background image in Gnome through the command line...