Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> The symptoms of the gpg thing are that the Outlook user gets
>> the e-mail, but instead of treating it as a signed message, it
>> treats it as an empty message with an attachment (or something
>> like that).
>
> I think you're getting your bugs mixed up.
No, I'm not.
Here is the entry from the mutt FAQ:
> Some user complained that my PGP messages are attachments!
>
> That user is using obsolete and broken software. PGP/MIME is
> the only way to use PGP with email that is actually specified
> (RFC 2015) and not some proprietary ad-hoc crap. Tell that
> other user to get rid of his legacy crap mail software and
> install standards compliant software. RFC 2015 is from 1996,
> by the way, so no mail software author can say he didn't have
> enough time to implement this.
The "legacy crap mail software" to which the FAQ refers
includes programs such as Outlook Express.
This has been discussed ad-nauseum in comp.mail.mutt. Here is
one of many threads:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&th=f4bc5007a180da94
> The bug you describe is caused when it recieves a message that
> starts with "begin " and isn't starting a uuencoded file.
Wrong.
The bug I'm describing is triggered by messages signed w/ PGP
or GPG according to the RFC. Outlook treats them as
attachments.
> OE users will attest to this as this particular post will
> trigger that bug.
You're describing a different bug in OE. There are so many
from which to choose...
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