pgp/mime vs in-line pgp

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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Len Sassaman wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Doug Barton wrote:

> > > Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Pine is under a "non-free" license, and
> > > the Pine authors have repeatedly rejected such patches.
> >
> > One could argue that large parts of this thread have been off topic for
> > this list, however I'm firmly of the opinion that the type of political
> > rhetoric about licenses that you've stated here is definitely off topic,
> > and personally I'd appreciate it if it was just skipped altogether.
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that's not "political rhetoric", that's a point of fact regarding pine.

as long as it involves the USE of gpg, i'd say it's on topic here.


> > > They have no interest in OpenPGP support, period.
> >
> > I'm not sure this is accurate either, or at least I think you're being
> > too specific by mentioning OpenPGP. It would be safer to say that PGP
> > integration in general has not been a goal for the Pine development
> > team, and that it's handled fairly well by a variety of third party
> > plugins.
>
> It is handled horribly. Show me one good plugin that supports PGP well.
> PGP4Pine? pgpenvelope? I've been involved in the development/testing of
> both of those for years, and they both are horrible. It is the latter that
> I use, since it is the best that Pine can get us, but that doesn't mean it
> is good. This is a fault not of the authors of the plugins, but of the
> Pine plugin API.
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they don't seem to have an interest in security, either (i say this after
raising security issues with the pine devel group, and receiving an
asinine response that demonstrated a serious lack of understanding about
security protocols). despite my own use of pine, this is evident in the
pine changelog. as i become more aware of these issues, my motivation to
migrate away from pine grows stronger.

len, have you tried ez-pine-gpg? it was written after i was disappointed
with the other gpg/pine filters.
	http://business-php.com/opensource/ez-pine-gpg/


> > In regards to the MIME issue, Pine doesn't give the user the ability to
> > manipulate attachments at all, so you can't create PGP MIME messages.
>
> A major flaw in Pine.
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and a violation of the pgp/mime and s/mime RFCs.


<<snip>>
> But none of this changes the fact that the answer to Pine's problems is
> *not* "go implement it yourself and it will all be better."
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*if* the pine API even allows it...



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