[MlMt] gpg best practice

[Ben Hyde]

Oliver, thanks for looking at my problem.  More details follow.  That 
said I sense the answer to my question is “Nope there isn’t…”

I get emails from many vintage correspondents who sign all their emails. 
  That triggers MailMate to complain it can’t find the 
/usr/local/bin/gpg.  That opens pops top off a barrel of monkeys and a 
flash back to having solved this in past lives.

So things come to mind…

1. “Gpg” eh?  What about “gpg2” … my memory is that last time 
I did this I used gpg2.
2. “/usr/local/bin” eh?  I thought the brew folks moved to 
/opt/homebrew/bin on Apple Silicon.
3. I seem to remember solving this, at last once, with a symbolic link 
to where I found gpg installed, but that was a longtime ago.
4. I did happen upon a posting in this mailing list, maybe a year (or 
two) old that mentions setting an environment variable to help guide 
Mailmate to this exceubable.
4a.  Of course mailMate runs as a child/spawn, of launchd.  Luck me I 
already know how to set environment variable in launchd for this kind of 
thing.
4b. Then I found an email that mentioned using “defaults set” to 
inject this info into mailmate
    defaults write com.freron.MailMate environmentVariables -array 
'{enabled = :true;  name = "MM_GPG"; value = "/opt/homebrew/bin/gpg"; }'
5. I don’t see info. About this in recent mailing list content.

So at point I seemed reasonably to ask if this was written down 
someplace.

If not, I’ll just kick it until something works :)

   - ben


On 20 Jan 2025, at 3:03, Oliver Sturm via mailmate wrote:

> I hadn’t actually tried it since I started using MailMate, since PGP 
> doesn’t come along too often for me these days. So I was curious, I 
> tried it and it works correctly. This is an M4 Mac, so unless you’re 
> referring to a problem specific to the M2 I wonder what it is?
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> On 19 Jan 2025, at 19:38, Ben Hyde wrote:
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>> I’m moving over to a new M2 Mac.  So PGP encryption stopped 
>> working.
>>
>> I see plenty of discussion about this the archives of this esteemed 
>> mailing list.
>>
>> Is this documented some place?  - ben
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