[6369] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Jun 2 17:03:23 1997
To: Nathan J Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>, "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>,
bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 02 Jun 1997 10:32:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: Nathan J Williams's message of Sun, 1 Jun 1997 18:13:57 -0400 (EDT)
No, it's not a bug. The PGP/MIME standard is the new standard that
the PGP Community is _trying_ to move towards. The newer versions of
PGP will support PGP/MIME. Older versions (like 2.6.2) need helper
apps (which are available) to decode the PGP/MIME protocol.
-derek
Nathan J Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> They should be able to read it, although they probably cannot
> verify the signature unless they have a PGP/MIME reader. Send
> a signed message to yourself and try reading it without exmh.
>
> Sort of defeats the purpose to send a message that can't be
> verified, no? While using MIME for PGP seems like a generally-good
> idea, not being able to interoperate with older/less featureful mail
> readers and PGP systems should be considered a bug in exmh's PGP
> handling.
>
> - Nathan
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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