On 3/25/15 1:20 PM, Ville Määttä wrote:
On 25.03.15 21:41, Doug Barton wrote:
While this is strictly anecdotal evidence I would argue that it's a good
indication that we may not be ready for PGP/MIME as the default.

I think that fail, a signature.asc attachment, is still a "cleaner fail"
than a non-PGP receiver getting a breakdown from inline PGP. And that is
for every single email.

How are you using the term "breakdown" here? If their client isn't doing PGP they see some extraneous text, and a signature block. While I agree that for those not using PGP that is clutter, I am not sure what you mean by "breakdown."

I have not received a single question from anyone regarding my PGP/MIME
signed emails. Not one. And I'm talking about the ones that don't use
PGP / have no clue what PGP is.

We've already established that PGP/MIME is a "cleaner" solution for those that don't use PGP. I'm not debating that point, and I don't think anyone else is either.

The question at hand is for those that *do* use PGP, which is more effective? TMK there are no mail clients that fail to process a valid in-line signature, but obviously there are still clients that cannot correctly handle PGP/MIME.

FWIW, I have received various other messages privately from people who have 
said the same thing ... They can see the attachment, but either message 
verification fails, or there is no indication on their side that it is a 
PGP-signed message at all.

In this one I can see your email with the attachment, but also marked
with a "good signature".

Thank you for confirming, but we're both using Enigmail so I would suspect that would be the case. :) Also, I can see the valid signatures on the message that I receive from the list. I'm glad to see that the old Mailman bug has been fixed in that regard.

Doug

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