pgp/mime vs in-line pgp

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:22:59PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> > The big problem with inline is non-ascii text: when the senders charset
> > differs from the receivers, the receivers MUA is likely to convert the
> > message before displaying/storing - breaking the signature (not an
> > issue when the receiver's MUA directly supports GPG/PGP.)
> >
> > I'm not sure, but I can imagine that there may be problems with line
> > wrapping, too, on conversions to/ftom quoted-printable.
> ==========================
> 
> please disregard my previous response to this... i was "thinking out loud"
> and accidently hit send.
> 
> anyway, what if gpg supported quoted-printable input? how much of the
> problem would that solve?

For every one problem that it would solve, it would create at least
one hundred more.  The answer to mail problems is to fix mail
programs.

David