Re: [tlug] Followup on mutt and gpg

[Ulrich Plate <plate@example.com>]

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On Tuesday 03 September 2002 22:58, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> 1) The "Dark Side of the Source" relies on malleable sheep to accept their
> crappy kludges around problems they can't and/or don't want to work out
> properly. I personally don't see why I should cripple my tools just because
> a software company (which I already regard not very highly) can't get its
> act together.

You know, Linux advocacy is a funny thing. Too few years ago, web designers 
all over the planet were flooded with demands to keep websites downward 
compatible to Lynx. Now, but when it comes to something much more important 
like security, all of a sudden everybody refuses to include those with the 
lesser tools... If it was OE we're talking about here, I'd shut up 
immediately. Alas, I've been using KMail 1.3.2 in Mandrake 8.2 all evening, 
and neither is a Redmond product...

> 2) The client you linked to doesn't do both ascii-armoured and pgp/mime, it
> only does pgp/mime: "You can use GPGMail for plain text and MIME messages,
> following RFC 3156". Note where the comma is - it implies that both plain
> text and MIMEified messages can be signed in an RFC3156-compliant manner,
> therefore via PGP/MIME.

Nope, that's not what I meant. Further down, past some of the pix: "GPGMail 
can use two different formats for encryption/signature: if your message 
consists of plain text (no attachments, no rich text attributes like bold, 
italic, etc.), GPGMail will use the old PGP format, with inline -----PGP----- 
armored signature/encryption. In the other case, it will use the new 
OpenPGP/MIME format, with MIME attachments, which is not recognized by some 
mail agents like Outlook/Entourage/Eudora, but welcomed by Sylpheed, Mulberry 
and others. If you prefer GPGMail to always use the OpenPGP/MIME format, then 
quit Mail, launch Terminal, type defaults write.com.apple.mail 
GPGOpenPGPStyleOnly YES and restart Mail."

Something like this would be nice, no?

Cheers
Ulrich Plate <-- trying to get the &#%$'&% GPGOE plugin on W2K to run...
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