Hi Olav, Thanks Olav, good to know this. Lots of my contacts - are or were, using Outlook. PGP/MIME aware Mobile apps seem to have a way to go as well. I now know how to deal with it now. Will make sure I follow up and coordinate with each recipient.
Again, thank very much for your Help.... Murray On 23/08/2013 6:23 AM, Olav Seyfarth wrote: > Hi Murray, > > > "You may use PGP/MIME instead though. This works fine with many programs > > but not all, INLINE always works." > > > Do you mean it works with Thunderbird on my PC and say with a receipt > > using Enigmail but not necessarily when I send an encrypted message to > > another person with an incompatible program. In such a case I would > have > > to resend in text using Inline PGP for that particular recipient. > Is that > > correct? > > INLINE PGP is just plain text. You can decrypt it easily by > cut'n'paste etc., > PGP/MIME typically is hidden by the Mail program (MUA). There are/were > MUAs > (some Outlook/Express versions) that silently discarded the whole > PGP/MIME block > leaving the receipient with an "empty" message body... > > But today, *if* you want/need HTML and OpenPGP, PGP/MIME is how to > achieve this. > Just beware that you *might* come across some (mobile?!) clients that > are not > PGP/MIME aware. > > Also, there's a difference between signing only vs. encrypting > messages. While > you might sign any outgoung message (and the risk somewone uses a MUA > that does > not know how to handle PGP/MIME), any PGP-encrypted message requires > the key of > the receipient thus the receipient should be aware of such issues. > > Olav > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net > >
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