I think s/mime support is probably a good idea in principal. However, I suspect
the difficulty may be in getting consistency across all the platforms VM runs
on, especially if this support will rely on external tools. It is probably
legitimate to explicitly support only some platforms, provided the feature
doesn't cause problems on platforms where it is not supported. 

Tim

Arik Mitschang writes:
 > Hi All,
 > 
 > Just wondering if folks have any thoughts on working toward support of
 > s/mime in VM? I mean something like using the mime capabilities to
 > recognize "pkcs7-mime" content-types and then running a tool like
 > openssl on the components of such a message. Or when composing a
 > message we could have support for s/mime by parsing the recipients and
 > locating appropriate certificates in a directory with symlinks and
 > signing capability of course.
 > 
 > If we rely in a big part on external tools (like openssl) it might be
 > a pretty easy thing to work in, plus speed is really a non-issue here.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > ~Arik
 > 

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