I get the same complaints from people who read my e-mails in Outlook,
because I always GPG sign them.  I'm worried this may cause people to
delete my e-mails without reading them in fear of it being a virus.

My suggestion would be to implement straight-text signing of e-mails, as
well as the MIME technique (I can see Jeff shuddering).

I know signing an e-mail via MIME is the best solution for modern mail
clients that know what a PGP/GPG signature is.  However, Outlook is
quite a widely used client, and having e-mails not read is a bit of a
time waster.

I have to admit, I'm quite torn on this issue.  It's Outlook's fault,
blatantly.  But considering the market share, maybe Evo should
accomodate.

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:45, Jim Scadden wrote:
> I have had the same problem as well. It only happens when I send
> messages encrypted/signed with gpg (haven't tried pgp).
> 
> The messages display fine in Evolution, but have the body as an
> attachment in Eudora & Outlook Express (they're the only two I have
> tried).
> 
> I had complaints, so I don't sign my e-mails by default any more.
> 
> On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:11, John Ehrlinger wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > For some reason messages I'm sending from Evolution are showing up as
> > attachments in Outlook express. I'm getting complaints from users about
> > the pain of having to view the attachment to read my messages. Am I
> > doing something wrong? Have I missed some pref? I could send the message
> > as HTML, but that causes other issues with nasty clients. I'd like to
> > tell them to use a real client, but that's not nice either. Is there an
> > Outlook setting I should tell them about?
> > 
> > My pref would be to convert them off OE, but I don't think that's
> > possible this time.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> > 
> > 
> -- Jim
> 
> 
> "A system can only be as secure as the dumbest action it permits its
> dumbest user to perform" - Mohen's Second Law of Security
> 
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