On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:11:42 -0800 Bill Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In addition many of the > people I correspond with use M$ Outlook which not only doesn't > understand PGP-MIME but hides the body of the message when PGP-MIME > attachments are present.
Huh. That's odd. It's the canonical wisdom these days -- borne out
by my experience with several correspondants who use Outlook -- that
Outlook handles PGP signature attachments just fine. *Outlook
Express*, OTOH, is broken in just the fashion you describe -- it
looks like a blank message, with the actual text portion of the message
appearing as the first attachment, and the PGP signature as the
second attachment, to them.
> So my dilemma is that I want my messages PGP signed, but PGP-MIME
> prevents me from communicating with my business partners. So far, inline
> signatures are the only solution. Has anyone found a decent work around
> to this Outlook problem?
Again, Outlook should be fine. If it isn't, I'm very interested
in learning what version of Outlook they're using, and why it doesn't
work for them but does for my correspondants using Outlook.
Rumor is that there's a plugin for Outlook Express that enables it
to handle PGP-signed email correctly. I don't know whether this is
true, and if so how well it works; but Googling might help.
Otherwise . . .yeah, getting them to use some other client than OE,
sorry.
Whenever this comes up in conversations with OE users I communicate
with (as it did once earlier this week), I always describe it in
terms that facilitate such a change: "Yeah, you've run into a bug
in Outlook Express -- it doesn't obey the internet standards for
email. Other Windows-based email programs, like Eudora or Lotus
Notes or even Outlook itself, don't have this problem. But OE
is buggy like this." And unless I really think it important to
accomodate them, I don't do anything differently. Imake them work
to read my email in its separate attachment containing my text,
hoping that it might annoy them into dropping IE and/or complaining
to MS.
-c
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Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I
have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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