Michael, Sorry to bother you again, but I tried sending a message using inline, and the attachment name was Readme.en.txt which was a text file. It automatically decrypted that file and put it in the message body as well as putting it as an attachment which when right clicked, asked me to open it with an application in this case wordpad. The attachment I could not open had a file name ending in .pgp, that would not open. Thanks, Bill
On 8/16/2014 5:30 PM, Michael Carbone wrote: > Hi Bill, > This is the difference between inline PGP and PGP/MIME. You are > apparently used to PGP/MIME, where the email message and any attachment > are encrypted & signed together in one bundle (and decrypted in one > bundle), while with inline PGP the email message and attachments are > encrypted & signed separately (and decrypted separately). > > It is worth highlighting that with inline PGP the name of the attachment > is not encrypted, just as the subject line of an encrypted email is not > encrypted. So if you think you have documents with sensitive names, you > should suggest to your correspondent to use PGP/MIME. > > PGP/MIME is the recommended setting nowadays, however some older & less > robust email clients like Outlook don't have PGP/MIME functionality, > only inline PGP. With Enigmail you can choose which you use: > > Account Settings --> OpenPGP Security --> Use PGP/MIME by default > > Michael > > Bill Haas wrote: >> I have received an attachment from a correspondent with what they said >> was a .pdf file. However the attachment came as an .pgp file. >> When I try to open it it gives me the choice to Decrypt and open, but >> when I do it asks what application I want to use. Normally when I >> receive an encrypted message with attachment it just opens the file. >> Am I doing something wrong here? >> Bill >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> enigmail-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: >> https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net >
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