On 2000.07.29, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Randall Hopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> One wish I have is for there to be an alternative way to specify the
> subject such that it is stored and retrieved from the body and not the
> header, so it can be PGPed.
I'd like this, too, and so would other people I do encrypted mail with.
The real problem is that there doesn't seem to be a standard for it, so
even if we came up with a solution here, there's no promise that other
mailers would decide on the same thing.
A mailer-specific solution to this is almost sure to create segmentation
and incompatibility. This discussion should occur in an open group.
Using a mime component is a good starting point. It makes it easier
for a mailer to search subjects, should it choose to do so. A standard
could also decide on X-PGP-Subject, or somesuch, and make that an
armored encryption. But that decision must be standardized to have any
real value.
(end soapbox)
Meanwhile, we (I and my correspondents) typically just copy the
Subject: line to the body of the message and put silly words in the
real Subject: (to distinguish one thread from another). You can easily
do this if $edit_hdrs is set.
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-D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
