Hey Nick Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08 Jan 2002 18:34 +0100]: > * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020108 18:18]: > > Nick -- > > > > ...and then Nick Wilson said... > > % > > % Hi all > > % When I pick up mails using Outlook I get 2 attachments. One containing > > % my email message and the other the pgp signiture. > > > > Right. > > > > > > % > > % I was told that the pgp-outlook patch would correct this but I'm not > > % having any luck. > > > > You have to both set $pgp_create_traditional (which is a stock part of > > mutt) and $pgp_outlook_compat (which appears thanks to the patch). > > Yeah, I was staying away from that as the manual said it was higly > deprecated. > > I take it that the $pgp_outlook_compat sorts out the body of the email > and the $pgp_create_traditional puts a --clearsign sig at the foot of > the mail rather than attach it?
Sigh. This is a religious war, and you should know that before you accidentally get into a skermish ;-) It's still an application/pgp message. This fixed all foreign mailers I deal with except my Dad (Outlook Express, 5.something - unable to read what appeared to be an attachment) and my boss (Netscape Messenger 4.76 I think, on Solaris - could read, but doesn't get quoted in reply). My preference is to clearsign the actual text buffer, so I can choose which attachment(s) to sign. Then it's sent as plain text, and recipients can decide what to do with it. As the various postings to this list suggest, if you're a mutt user (I've heard there's one other mailer that supports OpenPGP, and application/pgp is no more) you can write a nifty procmail script or just press esc-P; I'd rather live with that requirement than requiring that Outlook Express users like my Dad figure out how to reconfigure their MUA, or (heaven forbid) how to uninstall it and install something a little more civilized. Someone posted a macro, something like this: macro compose S "|gpg --clearsign\n" or some such. You can make it happen automatically by putting it at the beginning of your <send-message> macro. Oh, and I have a bunch of hooks for using OpenPGP instead, to mail to the mutt lists :) cheers j -- http://www.epic.org - Electronic Privacy Information Center
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