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Re: Decrypting all mail messages in an imap folder

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On  3 August 2023 15:35 Matto Fransen, wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a folder on a IMAP account with a number of PGP-ecrypted
> mail messages. I would like to have those decrypted somewhere, so
> I can grep or otherwise search for some content.
>
> The messages can all be decrypted with my key, of course.
>
> Is there a handy way to save these messages in decrypted form, or
> extract the decrypted content and save that somewhere?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!

since you're asking it here;

From the gnus group buffer you could run a macro (or something more
elisp) to decrypt those messages and then save all of them to
/tmp/somewhere/. I just tried that, and it "seems to work"™.

It would require you to have opengpg/pgp and gnus configured

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Decrypting all mail messages in an imap folder Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> - 2023-08-03 15:35 +0200
  Re: Decrypting all mail messages in an imap folder Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> - 2023-08-03 17:07 +0200
  Re: Decrypting all mail messages in an imap folder Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> - 2023-08-06 20:18 +0200

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