On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:26:53 -0500 John Ridge Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JRC> The only mail program I have seen on Linux that uses JRC> S/MIME is Netscape, and I hate its interface. Me too, otherwise I'd probably have just used it or joined Mozilla development instead of working on Mahogany. JRC> including S/MIME capability would really be an enhancement. The trouble with this is that: 1. S/MIME isn't a simple protocol and I'm not aware of any C/C++ libraries implementing it (I know one for Java but if there is something I hate more than Netscape it is Java :-) 2. even worse, I know nothing about S/MIME, i.e. I don't know how is it used nor do I even have a possibility to test it 3. I, personally, don't need S/MIME so far so I'm not very motivated on working on it I did consider adding S/MIME support some time ago exactly for the reasons you mentioned (i.e. it would give us a "competitive advantage" compared with the other Linux MUAs) but I quickly realized that I didn't have resources for this. OTOH, someone familiar with S/MIME shouldn't have a hard time adding support for it to Mahogany as I did my best to accomodate possible cryptographic extensions/plugins easily when designing the message viewing code. And I'd definitely do my best to help anybody interested in doing this. But in the near/medium future I don't see myself embarking on a project of this size and complexity. Regards, VZ _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
