kmail - gpg - mime vs armored

[Ingo Klöcker]

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David Findlay wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2002 07:16, Norberto Bensa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it posible to configure KMail to deal with MIME PGP
>> signed/encrypted messages both sending and receiving?
> 
> I'd have to second that request. A number of my friends use OE 5 and
> it doesn't do it the normal way. Could handling of this be added?

AFAIK OE 5 can't handle PGP/MIME. Norberto says the same: "ASCII armored 
signed messages are OK for non-standard compliant e-mail clients, i.e., 
Outlook Express, but is a pain with Sylpheed :-/"

So I don't know why you want PGP/MIME. Your friends should either 
install the GnuPG plugin for OE (http://www.winpt.org/gpgoe.html) or 
they should use WinPT (http://www.winpt.org).

OTOH, OE 5 might support S/MIME. The Aegypten project also adds S/MIME 
support to KMail. But please note that I don't think that S/MIME is 
useful for private communication because of the hierarchical tree of 
trust as opposed to OpenPGP with the web of trust.

Regards,
Ingo

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