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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: We need a short boilerplate text for KMail for various flyers
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-10 10:44:42
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On Saturday 10 August 2002 11:32, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
<snip>
> > We interface with pgp 2,5,6, too.
>
> Does not really help with OpenPGP, does it? :)

OpenPGP != GnuPG.

At least PGP 5 and 6 are useable as well. Also many people still use 
(variants of) PGP 2, so supporting those platforms _does_ help.

I know you GNUs don't like supporting proprietary software and you would 
probably be expelled from FSFE if Georg would see you saying "cool, you 
support PGP". But the fact is that OpenPGP is based on PGP5 and 
provides for backwards compat with PGP 2.6.

<snip Evo>
> Wow. AFAIK Werner once wrote support and it somehow did not get
> included.

That's what you get when a "ventor" takes over your "product" :-(

<snip>
> Gnus and mutt are the ones that work fairly well,
> because I use mutt and communicate with a lot of people using gnus.
> You might need a really fresh version of the crypto bindings.

Maybe you can show me the USPs of mutt and gnus w.r.t. OpenPGP 
integration on my next visit to Osnabrueck? ;-)

> Well depending on non-free packages is always a problem.
> You probably can ignore xfmail.
<snip>

This was not about free software MUAs alone. I claimed "industries 
leading" OpenPGP support, so we need to have a look at TheBat! and 
Eudora, too. :-P

We can ignore Outlook. The rumors about the shitty GData plugin or the 
cut'n'past orgies with WinPT are enough to throw it out of the 
competition.

Does Pegasus include OpenPGP support?

Oh, and I forgot Mulberry. It's IMAP only (no longer!), but it's still a 
MUA and it's even available for Linux.

Hmm, in the demo version there's no trace of PGP support. The mailing 
list contains a message that talks about how nicely the GnuPG plugin 
integrates with Mulberry, so that might only be available for purchased 
copies :-(

Marc

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