Topal
Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. Multiple PGP blocks included in the text of a message are processed. Decryption and verification output can be cached to reduce the number of times the passphrase is entered. RFC2015/3156 multipart messages can be sent and received with help from some scripts, procmail, and a patch to Pine/Alpine. It includes basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages. There is a remote sending and decryption mode for reading email on a distant computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer. There is a high level of configurability.
| Tags | Communications Email |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
Recent releases
- 27 Jun 2009 21:19
Changes: Changes were made to the email sending interface because of the addition of "sending defaults" to the configuration file. The MIME viewer configuration has been split (for decryption and verification). Other minor feature changes and some internal reorganization were done.
- 07 Jun 2009 07:38
Changes: Some spurious spaces that were messing up format=flowed text were removed. The default sending and receiving GPG options were changed. A new configuration option "omit-inline-disposition-name" was added. Apparently some mail services mistreat inline MIME parts if they have a filename. If this option is set, then no filename parameter is added to inline content-disposition headers.
- 01 May 2009 17:33
Changes: This release attempts to use a more appropriate character set for MIME sending and verification. It uses GPG text mode more often. The remote server handles multiple remote recipients properly. A new patch to Alpine makes it easier to view multi-part/signed or encrypted messages (good for IMAP users). There are better MIME headers and assorted minor changes.
- 24 Oct 2008 10:52
Changes: A Topal patch for Alpine 2.00 was added. (Alpine's S/MIME needs to be turned off for Topal's S/MIME verification to work.) Temporary files are now properly deleted. A bug when guessing the type of an attachment was fixed. A patch was added to Topal sources for Cygwin (the recent interrupt code doesn't build).
- 31 Aug 2008 16:43
Changes: Warning messages about missing secret keys were improved. Initial support for remote decryption of messages was added. Signal handling for the remote server was improved.
