MUA questions

[Thomas Spuhler]

Hmmm..I am not in favor of inline signing (my Evolution doesn't support
it) but that's all you can do in Outlook. How do those folks in Germany
France etc. sign e-mail, using their Outlook?

Tom


On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 04:24, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> >> I don't even think it's a question, inline is more widely supported.
> >> That's unfortunate, as PGP/MIME has the advantage of being defined in
> >> an RFC and can properly deal with all types of mail messages and
> >> formats, whereas inline breaks pretty quickly when you feed it much
> >> more than plain old ASCII.  Inline also doesn't do anything for your
> >> attachments, making your job harder if you want to sign and encrypt a
> >> message to a friend and include an attachment.
> > 
> > the body of an email should really only contain plain-old ascii.
> 
> Err. No. I cannot even write the names of several people I know just
> using plain ascii. Neither can I write all the words I use in day to day
> e-mail just using plain ascii. It might work for the english speaking
> folks out there, who aren't from german/swedish/whatever ancestry, but
> other languages *depend* on characters which cannot be found in the
> ascii charset.
> 
> And for these people inline signing *does* break extremely quickly.
> 
> Just sharing my € 0.02,
> 
> Ralph
> 
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