On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Christopher Smith wrote:
> 1) PGP/MIME signed documents don't work well with Outlook Express. In
> particular, it seems to think the plaintext has to be viewed as an
> attachment.
Blame Outlook. It cannot handle multipart/signed or
multipart/encrypted (at least in older versions).
> 4) Getting a windows e-mail client which can SEND PGP/MIME is next to
> impossible... no wait, it is impossible. ;-) This makes using PGP/MIME
> almost impossible.
Two workarounds:
- Convert non MIME PGP using procmail (see PGP-Notes.txt).
This does not work with multipart mails.
- The pgpsearch patch from Michael Elkins.
> 5) I'm getting weird cases where a lot of mailers are claiming my PGP
> signatures are invalid... regardless of whether I use PGP/MIME or if I
> use encrypt & sign all inline.
The Mails contain non-ascii chars?
If yes, ensure that you send PGP Mails as "quoted printable".
CU
Dirk
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