On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 06:07:54PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I just got informed through personal mail by a list member that my GPG > signed mail to the list, and equal mails by others, are uncomfortable to > be read. Because of the signature the mail body comes as an attachment > (ATT?????.txt) in text format. I think this is very uncomfortable for > those readers, and being forced to open an attachment ... > > The reader who informed me is using Outlook Express. I would now like to > know if there are other users and clients having difficulties with GPG > signed mails. Hi, Alexander. I sign almost all my emails, and I get this question from time to time. Outlook Express is broken. It does not comply with the relevant RFC, 2015. 2015 specifies "MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)". It was written by Michael Elkins, the original author of mutt (so it's a reasonable bet that mutt is RFC compliant, at least in this regard :-). To the extend that RFCs are the "rules of the road" of the Internet, it is incumbment on your correspondent to get an RFC compliant mail reader. There are additional reasons to ditch LookOut!; see "Outlook Not Good: Effective Practices for Avoiding Digital Infection", by David Baker, http://stalin.iodynamics.com/education/outlook_not_good.html For folks saddled with Outlook, see my netiquette web page for more resources. http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html So keep right on signing those emails, and eventually we may drag those pre-1996 Outlook users kicking and screaming into the XXIth Century. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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