GPG/PGP and Mail (was: Re: GnuPG: what email client should i
use?)
L. Sassaman
rabbi@quickie.net
Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote:
> El mié, 26 de jul de 2000, a las 10:35:28 +0200, Nils Ellmenreich dijo:
> >
> > - If we leave S/MIME aside, you've still got to decide whether to use
> > Ascii armor or PGP/MIME. I found (so far) no Unix-based mailreader
> > that can handle both (but there might be some, who knows. Maybe pine).
> > It really depends on the person you're mailing with which format to
> > use.
>
> AFAIK mutt can handle both application/pgp (ascii) and pgp/mime. It's
application/pgp is not regular ASCII-armored mail. application/pgp should
never be used.
What is so wrong with using regular text?
- --Len.
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