Thunderbird's hints and history for OpenPGP/MIME (new wiki page)

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:09, Ángel said:

> Nothing in the email you receive is actually required. You could have a
> Fully-Encrypted-Email-Messages, which on SMTP looked like:
>
> MAIL FROM:<...>
> RCPT TO:<lists at binarus.de>
> DATA
>
>
> .
> QUIT
>
>
> No plaintext at all. (Well, some Received: headers would be added, plus
> a Return-Path: ) You can even do that today.
>
> Your problem is that no client supports it.

Your problem is that the entire business world would immediatley stop
grinding.  Mail ist not just a toy for privacy geeks but the glue which
connects all kind of processes.  If you don't need this just switch to
to your favorite chat protocol.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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