Will -- ...and then Will Yardley said... % David T-G wrote: % > % > % attachments that cannot be read from some mail clients (commandline % > % mail, for instance). ... % > % Anyway, I have been reprimanded, and so I promised not to autosign % > % until I figured out what the deal was. % > % > Heh. Fight back; sign everything and encourage them to upgrade to a Real % > Mail Program (tm). % % that seems a little harsh.... i'm sure there are many who would tell % those of us who use mutt to use a 'real mail program'. there's nothing % wrong with using mailx or other command line clients.
While I overlooked that and figured that it was a mandated-by-management MUA, mutt is also a command-line MUA and it works dandily :-) Meanwhile, there's no particular reason for reprimand, even at the user-to-user level, since Louis is simply using a useful tool. If they want to bash mutt for doing it the Right Way instead of the Wrong Way (in case another for instance is LookOut!), then that's fair; we'll bash right back :-) % % however sending myself an pgp/mime signed email does seem to work ok % with mailx... what command line mail client (and OS) are these people % using? Well, while the message is there, it isn't necessarily pretty: % % for me it shows up like this: % % & % Message 3: % From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 10 13:20:23 2001 ... % % --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 % Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ... % test % % --=20 ... % --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 % Content-Type: application/pgp-signature ... % iD8DBQE77ZoXswHW5vg5XAIRApl9AJ45XAkSrOVZh0DLpL3/+kb6iNEPOgCdH6Cm % SrCI5ALyIdFqk2xAbSVsMPk= % =hfHw % -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- % % --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9-- % % & quit % Saved 1 message in mbox % Held 2 messages in /var/spool/mail/wby I imagine that the other folks are going "what are these goofy --PEIAK lines, and why does one of his lines end with a twenty, and what's all that 'PGP' stuff at the bottom?" and consider that unreadable. That, we all know, is a matter of user education combined with the proper tools. % % w % % -- % GPG Public Key: % http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/ :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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