Re: Mutt 0.89.1-4 [hamm]
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:52:32PM -0500, Bill Leach wrote:
> Did you look on a NON-US mirror site? The pgp stuff can not be posted on
> U.S. based sites because the U.S. Govt. is paranoid that somehow the U.S.
> defense department will be destroyed if a cryptographic system (available
> worldwide) is imported into the U.S. and then exported.
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote:
> are you saying that this version of mutt doesn't have pgp support and the
> ones on non-us have it? That would be a bit strange if you ask me, seeing
> as packages such as pinepgp are in the normal distribution. I allready
> have the pgp binary, I am talking about pgp support in mutt (the email
> client)
In the past, the situation was as follows:
- US version of mutt: includes hooks to PGP, but has itself no crypto code.
It was unclear whether this could be exported or not; the mutt author
wanted to be on the safe side; the debian developers decided packages that
only contained hooks for crypto could be exported.
- export version of mutt: no PGP support whatsoever.
This situation has changed. Now:
- The US version of mutt has no PGP support whatsoever.
- The international version (maintained outside the US) contains better
integrated PGP support.
As a result, now
- The "mutt" version on the regular FTP sites is the US version; no PGP
support.
- "mutt-i" on nonUS.debian.org and its mirrors is the international version,
including PGP support.
HTH,
Ray
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