On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:38:13PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
David Shaw <dshaw(_at_)akamai(_dot_)com> writes:
I stopped using it when I found myself in a corporate environment
where the majority of people were using various corporate mailers that
blew up in various odd ways with it. I'm sure this isn't a PGP/MIME
thing - they'd have blown up with any MIME they didn't understand, but
while a regular clearsigned signature can be ignored by those people
that either don't care or don't use PGP, a PGP/MIME message does not
always degrade quite so gracefully.
I think you just pretty well described what Jon meant by PGP/MIME
often not working in practice, whereas OpenPGP usually does work.
Exactly. I was agreeing with Jon as well (did I accidentally say
OpenPGP somewhere where I meant PGP/MIME or vice versa?)
In my experience, MIME in general except for two cases too frequently
does "interesting" things. Those two good cases are a) the really
common stuff (attaching a file and forwarding an email, possibly with
its own attachments), and b) the stuff the vendor provides, and
therefore tests (S/MIME, etc.)
David
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