PROBLEM:
Suppose I send a GPG-encrypted email that has an attachment. I then send
it to someone who is using Eudora 5.0 with PGP Freeware 6.5.8 to read
their email.
Normally, when a Eudora reads an encrypted email with an attachment, they
are initially presented with a PGP icon. If they click on the icon, they
are presented with the original text of the email, plus the icon for the
original attachment.
When I use mutt/GPG to send an attachment, though, it doesn't work as
well. Initially, they are still presented with the PGP icon. However,
when they click on it, instead of being shown the email plus an icon for
the attachment, the email plus its MIME headers, and the encoded
attachment plus its MIME headers are displayed as if it were the email
itself. If it was an image or something else that was attached, then you
get to see the whole base64 encoding of the attachment, instead of the
attachment itself. Blecch.
Oh, and something else: if I attach a file, then encrypt -and- sign, then
set the main text's disposition from inline to attachment, Eudora doesn't
even display the content when it decrypts. It only shows the
multipart/content-type header. *sigh*
MUTT SETUP:
* Running under RedHat Linux 6.2
* mutt 1.2.5i plus compressed folder support (installed from the RPM)
* gnupg 1.0.4 (latest from RedHat, which includes the recent security
patch)
EUDORA SETUP:
* Running under Win2K Pro
* Eudora 5.0
* PGP Freeware 6.5.8
I'd appreciate any help at all in working around this, so that I can use
mutt to send encrypted attachments that Eudora (and other mail
applications) recognise...
Note that I didn't even bother testing with Outlook and Outlook Express,
because they have bugger all support for receiving and correctly
processing encrypted attachments, anyway. (At least that is the case with
the PGP Freeware plugin, and Outlook Express dies about 20-50% of the time
with the PGP plugin, anyway.)
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