On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:38:39PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > Rumor is that there's a plugin for Outlook Express that enables it > to handle PGP-signed email correctly. I don't know whether this is > true, and if so how well it works; but Googling might help. <http://www.pgpi.org> refers to it somewhere. > Otherwise . . .yeah, getting them to use some other client than OE, > sorry. > > Whenever this comes up in conversations with OE users I communicate > with (as it did once earlier this week), I always describe it in > terms that facilitate such a change: "Yeah, you've run into a bug > in Outlook Express -- it doesn't obey the internet standards for > email. Other Windows-based email programs, like Eudora or Lotus > Notes or even Outlook itself, don't have this problem. But OE > is buggy like this." And unless I really think it important to > accomodate them, I don't do anything differently. Imake them work > to read my email in its separate attachment containing my text, > hoping that it might annoy them into dropping IE and/or complaining > to MS. Pretty much what I do. I also point people to Karsten Self's "Rant" on the topic at <http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html>, pointing out that while these are his opinions, not mine, I'm in agreement with 99% of it. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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