On 07/03/2010 08:28 PM, Kip Warner wrote: > Greetings ladies and gentlemen. There is a thread currently going over > in the Enigmail mailing list that draws on Evolution's design and the > choice made to use PGP/MIME encoding, as opposed to inline, for > sending. > > http://mozdev.org/pipermail/enigmail/2010-July/thread.html > > Subject: [Enigmail] Request for PGP/MIME as default setting > > It may be of interest to those knowledgeable. >
I can't believe I still remembered the bug# for this... but, the feature request for sending inline-pgp was: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217541 Anyways, having read the thread on the Enigma list - I have no idea what Robert J. Hansen is talking about wrt to any IRC discussions with some PGP Security group (there was never any such discussion, on IRC or anywhere as far as I can remember). Also, there were never any technical limitations for sending inline-pgp (there were some problems initially with Camel for /verifying/ pgp signatures, but those got worked out as had to be done for PGP/MIME anyway). As far as I remember, the reason we never bothered to implement inline-pgp sending support was more because it was plagued with compatibility problems with the various clients than anything else and really was only ever meant to work with plain-text message /bodies/ (one client or another would pgp sign or encrypt individual attachments too, but most clients weren't able to actually handle that). For example, Outlook's inline-pgp plugin would basically screen-scrape the message body after the user finished composing his/her message, pipe it to pgp, then pipe the signed (or encrypted) output back to the composer, which would then re-HTMLify it (have fun dealing with that!). I would imagine implementing support for sending inline-pgp messages wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement these days if one were so inclined. I'm not sure anyone actually cares though, seeing as how it seems the last request for this feature was from 2004(?). I also seem to remember the Mutt author telling me he was making Mutt default to PGP/MIME quite a few years ago (2002 or 2003 I think), and Mutt users are pretty hard-core so I figured inline-pgp was dead ;-) Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers