On 2000-02-04 22:43:39 -0800, 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.
Michael Elkins' patch for adding "inline" content-dispositions to
these body parts may be a work-around for this. The patch is in the
unstable CVS branch.
> 3) PGP/MIME seems to cause some e-mail clients (in particular
> Eudora) to crash upon opening. I have no idea what the deal is
> with this.
I'd suggest you report this as an error to Qualcomm, or to NAI if
it's caused by their plugin.
> 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.
I'd suggest you complain to your vendor, in particular when the
vendor claims PGP/MIME compliance.
> 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.
This may have the reason that some broken transport software is
changing messages in transfer. Don't laugh, this actually happens.
> 6) When windows eudora people read my PGP/MIME e-mails from Mutt,
> they claim the end-of-line character isn't working... it seems
> almost like it's all decoding to a Unix "\n" instead of "\r\n".
This is most likely a problem in Eudora, or in the PGP plugin used.
> The whole thing is that PGP is complicated enough by itself. When
> you add in all these other problems, it makes it almost
> impossible for most people to use. The success of things like PGP
> largely depends on how convenient it is for people to do things
> the right way.
Right.
> 1) what can be done to improve upon the situation, and
Complain to your vendor. Ask them to implement PGP/MIME. Ask them
to implement it properly. Make sure their marketing people know
that PGP/MIME support may be a reason for you to pend money.
Or use free software which implements it properly. ;-)
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