Tools for mutt

Tools

mutt-bug

This is a tool that displays Debian bug reports in mutt. You can then directly read all messages sent to the bug and reply. The messages are fetched directly from the web interface, so there is no delay between requesting bug and getting it per email.

This tool was originally written by Christoph Berg, I've made some modifications to make it work in arbitrary directories.

Useage:

$ mutt-bug bugnumber

Download: mutt-bug

gpgverify

gpg --verify is quite slow when you have large keyrings included (like the debian keyring). This is nasty, since mutt has to wait until gpg is finished when displaying a gpg signed message (with signature verification on). So I've written a tool that splits a huge keyring into a lot of smaller keyrings (one key per keyring) and a shell script to verify signatures, to be used from within mutt. The former tool is called splitkeyring.sh. The latter one is gpgverify.sh.

gpgverify.sh first invokes gpg --verify as normal and captures its output. If gpg failed because the key was not found in any keyring, the script looks if the key is in one of the splitted keyrings, and if so, reruns gpg with that keyring included. Otherwise the gpg error is returned.

These scripts are still hacky, if you want to use them you'll probably have to modify them a bit. They aren't too big, so this shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Download: gpgverify