On 1999-08-09 15:22:07 -0700, rex wrote:

>> - When your mail user agent doesn't support PGP, it has no decent
>>   access to the signed text.  Not very nice.  

> But I don't understand this. The signature is just part of the
> message and doesn't interfere with reading the signed part of the
> message at all, IME.

Try sending unified diffs with traditional PGP signatures.  Try
reading such messages with a MUA different from Mutt.

>> Nothing.  That's why Mutt is actually able to _receive_
>> traditional-style PGP signed message, but sends PGP signed messages
>> in a format which complies with RFC 2015, a Proposed Internet
>> Standard.

> After procmail is used to fix up the message, yes.

Yes, certainly.  There is no standard which specifies that
text/plain should be scanned for PGP messages. ;-)

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