pgp/mime vs in-line pgp

[Len Sassaman]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bjoern Buerger wrote:

> > now to convince the pine team at UW to implement such a simple thing!
>
> Since _you_ want to use pine, it would be up to
> _you_ to do that. If they don't plan to implement
> it themselves, best thing would be to send them
> patches.

Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Pine is under a "non-free" license, and
the Pine authors have repeatedly rejected such patches. They have no
interest in OpenPGP support, period.

Maintaining a patch-set in parallel with pine would be a painful task.