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Title: elm and printing encrypted mail

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elm and printing encrypted mail

Request:

You receive encrypted mail for elm. Elm decodes the mail correctly, as it is showed on the screen, but it seems to give no possibilities to save or to print the decoded mail either. One can only save the encrypted mail. How does one proceed if one needs a save of the decoded mail?

Procedure:

One solution looks like, addmitely not the most elegant but it is anyway one:

  1. In the elm documents one finds the hint, that pipe print in connection with crypt is not installed, but possibly it is without crypt.
  2. One reads under X with elm the crypt message (e.g. with Tk-Desk), picks up the decoded text with the mouse (X selection), drops it in a new Tk-Desk's edit window and saves the new window with the text from the mouse. In this new file the decoded text is located as desired.
The procedure is probably only easy to apply to short crypt documents .

But it goes even better:

When one receives with elm a longer crypt message and would like to save it in uncrypted form, one does as follows:

  1. Read with elm the e-mail, decode.
  2. Notice about this, that less is adapted as pager. less has the parameter -o. With it, one can save piped-in files.
  3. Give -o in elm and then declare the name of the desired file.
  4. In elm now take a look until the end of the information; as a result everything is red into less.
  5. Exit elm.
  6. Process the less's main files (from elm), i.e. delete the not interesting initial and final information and save again the rest.
These solutions reached us on the 16th and 24th Sept. 1996 from Mister Ekkehard Ellmann. Thanks a lot!

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Keywords: ELM, PRINT, CRYPT, MAIL

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