TOPAL(1)

💖 topal — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is TOPAL(1), like, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and we're about to get into it. no cap. 🫶

topal — GPG/GnuPG and Alpine/Pine integration 🌸

like. it's the little glue guy that makes your mail and your crypto hold hands. iconic behavior fr fr.

topal [ options ]

that's it. that's the whole thing. topal plus options. slay. 💅

okay so, topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine together 💖. it's giving matchmaker, honestly.

here's what it can do:

encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages — the whole lil crypto squad 🔥
and yes, you can also run it straight from the command-line if that's your vibe ✨

some more stuff you should know:

if a message has multiple PGP blocks in its text, topal processes them. all of them. not just the first one. it's thorough like that 👑
the decryption and verification output can be cached — which is a whole blessing, because it means you don't have to keep re-entering the passphrase over and over 😭 the number of times the passphrase is entered goes down.
you can send and receive RFC2015/3156 multipart messages — but lowkey it needs a lil help: some scripts, procmail, and a (deprecated) patch to Pine/Alpine. ⚠️ yes, deprecated. we said what we said. it's still in the docs though.
it's got basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages 🎀
there's a remote sending mode — for when you're reading email on a distant computer via SSH while your secret keys live on your local computer 🧚 the way that works is genuinely so cool.
and there is a high level of configurability 🌈 which is a fancy way of saying you can tweak basically everything. main character energy.

want the deets? two options bestie:

that's the move.

Phil Brooke, p.j.brooke@bcs.org.uk — ty for your service king 🫡✨

okay that's the whole page, no notes. go forth and encrypt responsibly 💖

and hey, before you go — this beauty is from November 2, 2002 📅, so like, show some respect for the elders. mwah. 🎀💅🦋

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