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 that he can use procmail to
> > fix his incoming mails for Mutt.
>
> Yes. Someone else on the debian mailing list has posted a .procmailrc
> that will convert all the incoming messages with mime encrypted pgp signatures.
>
> 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 ask user whether or not to save it in a file. I guess people
> can configure pine to use /etc/mailcap to overcome this. But it does generate
> some incompatiblities. I believe the situation is worse in the windoze world.
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 it. Until then, if you care about making life easier for
your pine-using friends, you can use macros to produce old style messages
or find another work around. Bugs need to be worked around and fixed, not
supported.
> While pushing hard this great feature to a MUA standard, how about we also make
> a patch available to make those people who want to move to mutt but dislike this
> feature happy??
If we do this it encourages people to leave things as they are. Mutt isn't
really interested in keeping buggy behaviour. This is part of what makes
it what it is, and one of the main reasons to use it/move to it.
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