On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:16:46 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > OK, so basically for _normal_ users, when mail clients deploy gpg as a > detached sig, the only reasonable way to verify or if needed, decrypt > the message would be to choose a similar mailclient... Yes, one that implements PGP/MIME support. > That's so much like > M$'s way of thinking that I wouldn't choose to use that method even if I > "liked" any of the gui mail clients... Can you explain that theory of thinking further? > Especially when/if a user of such > a mail client wants to verify, or decrypt some ascii armored message > body from me, all they should need to do is to save the message as a > temporary text file, and run a command line utility on it, ... and run into problems when some mail relay converted the original content encoding to something else, e.g. 8-bit to quoted-printable or vice versa. > Works for me! > > - -- ^^^^ This is an ugly side-effect of inlined PGP signing. The signature separator is escaped with a leading '- ', and most--if not all--mail user agents won't recognize it anymore. E.g. I had to strip off your overlong signature manually. Signatures should not exceed four lines of text. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 loadavg: 1.04 1.32 1.35
