Werner Koch wrote: >> Problem 2: PGP/MIME. Correspondents who were using PGP/MIME for >> attachments found massive interoperability problems. Apparently, >> Enigmail has an idiosyncratic way of doing PGP/MIME which causes >> heartache and woe for non-Enigmail users. (I haven't confirmed this; >> this is just according to him.) > > It is really a shame that the one Free Software project which is known > by more than the computer geeks - namely Mozilla - is refusing to > support an established standard like PGP/MIME. We have had several > implementations of it over the years for the new mail componnent (now > known as Thunderbird) but all of them have been refused without giving > good reasons. > > In this regard Thunderbird is no better than Outlook!
But there is Enigmail, and I'm doing my best to integrate .it as neatly as possible into Thunderbird ;-) > BTW: We would be able to solve the Outlook PGP/MIME sending problem if > we could informally agree on a variant of the Content-Type header which > gets checked by PGP/MIME aware MUAs before they use the real > Content-Type. Yes, it would be an ugly hack but very helpful. What precisely would you need (or send)? I would be open to implement such a "solution" in Enigmail, if it helps! -Patrick _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
