On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:34:30PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 1999-08-09 12:43:07 -0700, rex wrote:
>
> > I don't mind -- too much -- having to spend a couple of hours
> > reading enough about procmail
>
> A couple of hours? In doc/pgp-notes.txt, there is a recipe readily
> available f
On 1999-08-09 15:22:07 -0700, rex wrote:
>> - When your mail user agent doesn't support PGP, it has no decent
>> access to the signed text. Not very nice.
> But I don't understand this. The signature is just part of the
> message and doesn't interfere with reading the signed part of the
> m
On 1999-08-09 12:43:07 -0700, rex wrote:
> I don't mind -- too much -- having to spend a couple of hours
> reading enough about procmail
A couple of hours? In doc/pgp-notes.txt, there is a recipe readily
available for cut & paste.
> to get it working, because it's a useful program for other t
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 03:22:07PM -0700, rex wrote:
>
> Yes, I agree. I was thinking of encryption, which has always worked
> well for me.
And, again, it works great for me when communicating with people using
modern mail clients. (Again, think of the pain in the ass life was when
Elm was the
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:18:17PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 1999-08-08 23:38:32 -0700, rex wrote:
>
> > Why do you call a convention that was in use worldwide for several
> > years and perfectly functional, a bug?
>
> While it's not an actual bug, it's _not_ perfectly functional.
>
>
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 09:48:00AM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 11:38:32PM -0700, rex wrote:
>
>> Let's face it, PGP is far more important to freedom than Mutt, and
>> intentionally making PGP harder to use is a serious mistake.
>
> In retrospect, I was way wrong: except for
On 1999-08-08 23:38:32 -0700, rex wrote:
> Why do you call a convention that was in use worldwide for several
> years and perfectly functional, a bug?
While it's not an actual bug, it's _not_ perfectly functional.
There are several issues with traditional cleartext PGP signatures:
- When your
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 11:38:32PM -0700, rex wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> >
> > This is technically a bug in pine. If Mutt repeats this bug, we don't make
> > any progress. People using pine should bug the developers to fix it if
> > they care about
On 1999-08-09 02:34:31 -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > IMO, Mutt is following an elitist path on this issue
> > which is hurting Mutt and the PGP user community. Let's face it, PGP
> > is far more important to freedom than Mutt, and intentionally making
> > PGP harder to use is a serious mistake.
rex [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > Shao Zhang [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >> But, what about outgoing messages? If I pgp sign a mail to a friend
> >> who is using pine as his MUA. When he views the attachment, pine will
> >> compla
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> Shao Zhang [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>> But, what about outgoing messages? If I pgp sign a mail to a friend
>> who is using pine as his MUA. When he views the attachment, pine will
>> complain it is an unknown attachment and will a
Shao Zhang [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Jeremy Blosser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > The best way to handle this is to educate people as to why the old way is
> > bad and push them to push the people who make their MUA to fix it.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > This guy's problem sounds like not realizing th
Jeremy Blosser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> The best way to handle this is to educate people as to why the old way is
> bad and push them to push the people who make their MUA to fix it.
Agreed.
> This guy's problem sounds like not realizing that he can use procmail to
> fix his incoming mails f
Shao Zhang [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> It seems that a lot of people don't like how mutt treats the PGP
> signature as an attachment.
>
> I know there is a macro to work around this. But is there better
> way to handle this??
The best way to handle this is to educate peo
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