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Re: [tlug] Followup on mutt and gpg



On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:26:13 +0900, Ulrich Plate <plate@example.com> squashed
this out of the keyboard:

> Cool. Now if all those who can afford to be righteous bastards could
> please briefly point out to the more malleable sheep down here which mail
> client or plugin to a mail client is capable of interpreting both
> standards correctly, I'd be much obliged. Don't tell me there is none for
> Linux, apparently there's even one for OS X (GPGMail,
> http://sente.epfl.ch/software/GPGMail/). 

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.

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.

-- 
G. Stewart   --   gstewart@example.com
                  gstewart@example.com
Registered Linux user #284683

GnuPG key  : BA3D01C6 (pgp.mit.edu)
Fingerprint: C3DF C686 6572 6E59 E3E4  0F40 2B9A 2218 BA3D 01C6
---------------------------------------------------------------
Doctors can be frustrating. You wait six weeks for an
appointment and he says, "I wish you'd come to me sooner."

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