FAQ

1. How legal is pgp4pine?
Note: I'M NOT A LAWYER! I HOPE TO NEVER BE A LAWYER! 
SEE YOUR/A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE ACTING/THINKING ON THIS!!!!! 

Ok, pgp4pine *should* be legal anywhere in the world that C and your OS are
legal, although maybe not Iraq/Iran... It does NOT do any actual encryption
itself, it only is a convenient (hopefully!) interface to
PGP(tm)/GnuPG/other PKI-style programs. As such, it *should* be legal.

For the legality of PGP, read its documentation. Note that PGP is only free
of charge for non-commercial use, you might consider trying GPG instead 
(http://www.gnupg.org).

2. How do I ... ?
First step: type man pgp4pine. Then read docs/en/pgp4pinerc. In 1.3 I
implemented profiles, so if you used pgp4pine before 1.3, your .rc file
needs to be re-done... If this doesn't answer your question, send it to me
(holger@flatline.de).

3. Is pgp4pine Y2k compliant ?
pgp4pine is. However, it depends on PGP and Pine, so these have to work 
as well. I know of no problem with PGP, but Pine prior to version 4 has 
a problem with its date-sorting routines.

4. When I just sign a mail, the output is sometimes encrypted !
The mail is not encrypted, only ASCII-armored. PGP does this when it 
encounters 'special' characters (äöü), and without warning you.
(GPG does not have this behaviour.)
Version 1.75 detects and asks you when this happens.

5. It all seems to be installed well, but Pine does not use pgp4pine.
If Pine has problems calling the filter, you get no error message, 
but Pine silently ignores it. Verify that the path is right 
and you wrote everything well. 

6. Can you turn off the "Comment: Made with pgp4pine x.xx"?
Yes, add "add_comment=0" to your .pgp4pinerc file.

7. Is there a way to encrypt attachments?
No. Pine only gives us the message text. If you want to send encrypted
attachments, you have to encrypt them separately. Maybe you also want
to take a look at mutt. 

8. I'm using PGP 2.x. Can I specify which keyrings to use?
No, PGP 2 only supports the default keyring files. PGP 5 and GnuPG
support whatever keyring you define in their preferences, by default 
the defaults.

9. If you need to report a problem, please do the following:
        Add --debug to the command line you're trying to run.
	Send your ~/pgp4pine.debug file to me (holger@flatline.de).