Kevin -- ...and then Kevin Coyner said... % % Since I'm on this list and using mutt it's obviously a safe assumption
I know what you mean. % that MS products are not my first choice in software. However, many of % my friends use these products, in particular Outlook Express. Friends don't let friends use Outlook :-) % % Recently I started GPG signing most of my emails, and have found that % the recipients using OE (with default settings) are not getting the % content of my emails. It seems that OE not only removes the GPG % signature, but also strips out whatever text was in the body of my % email. Is the body really stripped or does it simply not open in Outhouse but instead appear as an attachment and have to be opened in a text editor or something similar? % % Is this just a fact of life in the world of MS, or is there a change I We could say that and continue to prod them to change :-) but there is a workaround. For 1.3.x and 1.4 you need Dale Woolridge's patch, found at woolridge.org(?) or at my http://mutt.justpickone.org/mutt-build-cocktail/ site, while for 1.5.x it's integrated into the stock build. Once you apply that, the traditional mode ($pgp_create_traditional) is further spindled and mutilated so that it works for LookOut!, which is so noncompliant that it can't even handle basic traditional format but needs a particular tweak to the content headers (IIRC). % can make on my end in my mutt settings to get around this OE % shortcoming? Obviously I can set up send-hooks with and without the While I wouldn't recommend turning off your sig, send-hooks are nonetheless not at all a bad idea. I send everything as PGP/MIME except in the few cases where I specifically change to traditional, and I drive that with send-hooks. % signature, but this presumes I know beforehand what client the recipient % is using. Is there another way? Beware of a wholesale change to inline PGP/gpg; it's not robust, can't handle attachments (too bad if you wanted to encrypt that tar file you were going to include), and only works with us-ascii (perhaps not even with the "MS" charset, something-1252-something). % % Thanks % Kevin % % -- % % Kevin Coyner % mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 HTH & HAND :-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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