GPG support in Mahogany

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 11-Dec-2002/01:45 +0100, Ingo Kl=F6cker <ingo.kloecker@epost.de> w=
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>On Tuesday 10 December 2002 17:21, Xavier Nodet wrote:
>> I have signed this message twice. I could have encrypted it betwee=
n
>> the two signature, no?
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>Yes. You could have done this. But please refrain from making this=
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>possible with Mahogany. The reason is that probably no other email=
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>client will be able to grok such a message. Especially since=20
>clearsigning and inline encrypting have been obsoleted long ago by=
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>PGP/MIME you shouldn't do more than the absolute necessary, i. e. ad=
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>support for verifying and decrypting clearsigned/inline encrypted=
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>messages but not for creating such messages.

That might be a good philosophical stand, but if I wanted people to
actually use my mail client, I would try to support the formal standa=
rd
and any common non-standard variations. Inline clearsigning and ASCII
armored encryption is more common than PGP/MIME.

We need more mail clients to correctly support PGP/MIME. But until th=
en,
we still need to be able to create and process inline signed and/or
encrypted messages.

Tony
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