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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:28345] Re: GnuPG action does not work
From:       Rumi Szabolcs <rumi_ml () rtfm ! hu>
Date:       2006-08-17 7:18:09
Message-ID: 20060817091809.c29a1a5e.rumi_ml () rtfm ! hu
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Hello,

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:16:09 +0200
Trick <trick@numericable.fr> wrote:

> It was also a point of my previous email.
> Maybe I didn't describe it very well.
> Anyway thank you for backing me up here! :)
> 
> Months ago I try to look into the code and ended somewhere in action.c but I'm no programmer.
> 
> Hope it works again one day.
> 
> Trick

I have used that action-based decryption of ASCII-armored mails
quite long ago because as far as I can remember it was unable to
decrypt mails properly with attachments, especially with multiple
attachments. I understand that PGP/MIME is a standard which is
a lot better but the de facto standard among usual Windows mailers
like Outlook or Eudora always was and still seems to be the
ASCII-armored format.

For example if I manage to convince a customer of our company to
send me classified documents in encrypted mails instead of plain text
that's already a big achievement and then they of course send it in
ASCII-armored format as Winword attachments from Outlook or similar.
I have to adapt to this situation because I cannot convince every
company to move from Exchange/Outlook to Sylpheed-win32 and anyway...

So I believe that Sylpheed should have a well-written internal
ASCII-armored support that can handle multiple attachments from
an ASCII-armored message just the same way as it does with a
plain text message, despite the fact that PGP/MIME is a better
standard. That's my opinion.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Sab

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