Hi!
I have a problem sending gpg encrpyted mail to my pal who's using PMMail
OS/2 and PGP-5.x.
He had a correspondence with the author of PMMail and that's what came out:
Comments?
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On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 18:08:48 +0200 (MSZ), Florian Piekert wrote:
>When I go into the pmmail inbox of my account and manually pgp v the
>message, I get it decoded ok. Just the auto decode from PMMail doesn't
>work as I would love it to ;-)
Great! I was going to send it back to you and see if you could
successfully use PGP v on it.
OK, so we know that GnuPG and PGP 5 can cooperate.
>>message to know for sure but I think PMMail/2 might be having
>>problems with "Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted" or possibly
>>with the way the message is MIME encoded.
>
>I guess that is the problem somehow.
Yes, this is the problem.
The message you are receiving has its body broken into sections
(separated by "--Eldrgvv4EWsIM1sO"). Only sections identified as
"Content-Type: text/plain" or "Content-Type: text/html" or
"Content-Type: text" are displayed in the message read window of
PMMail/2. All other Content-Types are displayed as attachments.
If your correspondents' email client insists on encoding and sending
PGP encrypted text as "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" then
PMMail/2 will not be able to display and automatically decrypt it.
PGP encryptd text is just plain text so there is no reason why this
person's email client should send it as "Content-Type:
application/octet-stream".
>Oh, as far as I see it is not possible. At least not on purpose, but just
>on coincidence. And then only with a method which only lets me read my
>mail but not the recipient. That's really something I call secure ;-)
LOL!:-)
Maybe you should add a signature to all your mail saying, "sorry, I
can't trust you enough to let you read your mail." :-)
>--------
># COMMAND-LINE SPECIFICATION
>
>Armor = off
>ArmorLines = 0
>AutoServerFetch = 1
>Compress = 1
>EncryptToSelf = 1
>FastKeyGen = 0
>HTTPKeyServerHost = pgp.ai.mit.edu
>HTTPKeyServerPort = 11371
>Language = us
>LanguageFile = language50.txt
>MyName = "Florian Piekert"
>NoBatchInvalidKeys = 0
>Comment = PGP 5.0 for OS/2
>CharSet = cp850
>version = 4
The only differences between your settings above and mine are that I
have "EncryptToSelf = 0", I do not have "MyName" set and I have
"version=3" (this solved some problems with interacting with PGP
2.6x).
I seriously doubt that any of those differences are causing PMMail/2
to magically call PGP for no good reason.
However, it might be worth changing "EncryptToSelf" to "=0" just to
see if it helps.
--
Trevor Smith
PMMail/2 Technical Support
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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road I'll have my own fair-size nation to rule over. And when we get
nukes, as we surely shall, we shall wage unlimited war against the
Empire of Microsoft.
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