GPG signatures and list mail

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:17:18AM -0500, Adam Voigt wrote:
> I had this problem a while back as well, I believe the answer I heard on
> another mailing list was Outlook was broken to the RFC standard (as
> usual). 

Correct. Accoring to the mutt FAQ
(http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq.html), the relevant RFC is 2015.

> However, the solution is to "clear sign", or "inline sign" your
> message, so the little header and footer for GPG come in the actual
> email message body. 

Incorrect. This method is depricated, and has been since
1996. According to the mutt FAQ:

  "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."

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