[Nmh-workers] help me out with mime/base64/gpg please

[hymie]

Greetings.  I'm an old-time Unix guy who doesn't like all this new-fangled
"web" and "mime" stuff in his email  So this problem is probably a
combination of stuff I don't know and stuff I configured wrong.

Somebody wrote me an email: he pgp-encrypted-with-ascii-armored it;
and then he (or something) base64-encoded it, and then it got emailed to me.

mhlist says:

 msg part  type/subtype              size description
57597       multipart/mixed           5193
     1     text/plain                   0
     2     application/pgp-encrypte    12 PGP/MIME version identification
     3     application/octet-stream  2968 OpenPGP encrypted message.asc

The actual message has this in it:

(part 2)

Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted;
        name="PGPMIME version identification"
Content-Description: PGP/MIME version identification
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="PGPMIME version identification";
        size=12; creation-date="Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:07:12 GMT";
        modification-date="Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:07:12 GMT"
Content-ID: <address@hidden>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

VmVyc2lvbjogMQ0K

(part 3)

Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="encrypted.asc"
Content-Description: OpenPGP encrypted message.asc
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="encrypted.asc"; size=2968;
        creation-date="Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:07:12 GMT";
        modification-date="Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:07:12 GMT"
Content-ID: <address@hidden>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgTUVTU0FHRS0tLS0tDQpWZXJzaW9uOiBHbnVQRyB2Mg0KDQpoUUlNQTk2
ZWtCNWsySm5vQVJBQWdPZU5VNHBxV1lybWhwK1ZvbTZ1Z2xlbEkrT0sxQksrbGV0YkxKdVBzek4w
DQozMkp1dGp2alM0QlVxK2NjYTh5UllFWVFiVEphaGhHTUZJQXFKdlVPd2tyTHREWmRrMnBDcTVm
am4zTHFiUFBpDQptbUtTWXlNTnU2c1dldHVlN05BVUtsZk5MYkZNS0lYOGxYWEk3U3RpT0pMN0lB
(and lots more base64)

I see the man page for mhshow which says

   If  none  of  these apply, then mhshow will check to see if the message
   has an application/octet-stream content with parameter “type=tar”.   If
   so,  mhshow  will use an appropriate command.  If not, mhshow will com-
   plain.

but it looks like the "type" isn't there.

Now, I can manually get the text out -- and that's one of the many reasons
why I love and still use nmh.  But it seems like there is something
I'm missing, that will enable mhshow to say "Oh, base64 and pgp-encrypted.
I should use the 'gpg2 -d %F | less' command to show this part"  and I
can't seem to find it.

Thanks in advance.

--hymie!    http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie    address@hidden
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