[[!meta date="2009-02-04 11:39:37"]]
I've been scripting up a few things recently and my inability to send
-nicely formatted PGP/MIME messages was starting to really bug me. I
-had been encrypting my logwatch output with gpg and just emailing the
-raw gpg out to myself, but it's annoying to have to ESC-P every time I
-want to decrypt a log. The tipping point came while I was writing up
-a script to automatically email grades out to my students (not that
-any of the student's care about PGP, but it's the principle of the
-thing ;), since there's no way I'm going to send them raw gpg output
-(they would die) and there's also no way I'm going to hold Mutt's hand
-while it signs the emails. I dunno why Mutt doesn't have some
-`--batch` mode options to support PGP, but there it is.
+nicely formatted [[OpenPGP|PGP]] messages was starting to really bug
+me. I had been encrypting my logwatch output with gpg and just
+emailing the raw gpg out to myself, but it's annoying to have to ESC-P
+every time I want to decrypt a log. The tipping point came while I
+was writing up a script to automatically email grades out to my
+students (not that any of the student's care about PGP, but it's the
+principle of the thing ;), since there's no way I'm going to send them
+raw gpg output (they would die) and there's also no way I'm going to
+hold Mutt's hand while it signs the emails. I dunno why Mutt doesn't
+have some `--batch` mode options to support PGP, but there it is.
So I [wrote my own][send_pgp_mime.py]. Not very complicated really,
just implementing the [RFC 3156][] specs. There's obviously room for