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PGPSENDMAIL(8)         DragonFly System Manager's Manual        PGPSENDMAIL(8)


NAME

       PGPsendmail - drop-in wrapper to  sendmail  to allow PGP encryption


SYNOPSIS

       pgpsendmail [ args ]


DESCRIPTION

       The pgpsendmail programme is a drop-in wrapper to the standard Unix
       sendmail  programme. pgpsendmail may operate in two basic modes. Each
       of these is described below:

       If the PGPPATH environment variable does not exist, the real  sendmail
       programme is executed with the same command line arguments.  Hence, it
       is quite safe to move the original (real) /usr/lib/sendmail to
       /usr/lib/sendmail.real and place PGPsendmail as /usr/lib/sendmail since
       the system startup scripts (/etc/rc*) should not define PGPPATH.  The
       operation of sendmail as a daemon is not affected. Also, users who do
       not use PGP are also completely unaffected (as they will not have a
       PGPPATH environment variable).

       If the PGPPATH environment variable does exist, PGPsendmail will check
       all recipients in the message header (marked by "To: ", "Cc: " and
       "Bcc: " keywords) to determine if they have a PGP public key in the
       senders public keyring. By default, if all recipients have a public
       key, the message is encrypted for all recipients prior to transmission.
       The message is actually transmitted by the use of the real sendmail
       programme.  If one or more recipients does not have PGP public key, the
       message is not encrypted.  PGPsendmail extracts the Email address of a
       recipient when determining if a PGP public key is available.


DEBUGGING

       To enable verbose debugging output from PGPsendmail, create the file
       $PGPPATH/PGPsendmail.debug. Upon each Email you send, the file
       /tmp/PGPsendmail.debug.<UID> will be over-written with a log for that
       message.


FILES

       $PGPPATH/pubring.pgp          the users' public keyring file
       $PGPPATH/randseed.bin         the seed file for PGP
       $PGPPATH/PGPsendmail.config   the users' configuration file
       $PGPPATH/PGPsendmail.debug    enable debugging if exists
       /tmp/PGPsendmail.debug.<UID>  debugging output file
       pgpsendmail/doc/README.PGPsendmail
                                     distribution README (has more info.)


BUGS

       PGPsendmail doesn't work with UCBMail and NeXTMail on the NEXTSTEP. It
       does work with Pine and Rnmail.


SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8), pgp(1), pgpdaemon(8), sendpgppass(1), pgppipe(1)


AUTHOR

       Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)


AVAILABILITY

       The PGPsendmail/Unix Suite is available for anonymous ftp from:

       ftp.atnf.csiro.au:pub/people/rgooch
       ftp.dhp.com:pub/crypto/pgp/PGPsendmail
       ftp.ox.ac.uk:pub/crypto/pgp/utils
       linux.nrao.edu:pub/src/pgp/PGPsendmail

PGPsendmail/Unix Suite            8 Dec 1994                    PGPSENDMAIL(8)

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