---
name: "topal"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "topal"
version: "84-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/topal"
---

# topal(1)

GPG/GnuPG and Alpine/Pine integration

## NAME

topal - GPG/GnuPG and Alpine/Pine integration

## SYNOPSIS

**topal** \[ *options* \]

## DESCRIPTION

Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. It can also be used directly from the command-line.

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 (deprecated) patch to Pine/Alpine. It includes basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages. There is a remote sending mode for reading email on a distant computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer. There is a high level of configurability.

## USAGE REFERENCE

Use the -help option, or see the README file.

## AUTHOR

Phil Brooke, p.j.brooke@bcs.org.uk