On 2002-02-13 09:44:05 +0200, disastry(_at_)saiknes(_dot_)lv wrote:
can not save message to disk and decrypt and/or verify later
outside MUA,
Where do you get the expectation from that you can handle e-mail
messages without software able to parse their format?
(And, BTW, you can certainly do all you desire outside the MUA. You
just have to do some _very_ basic MIME parsing yourself.
some virus checking software removes attachments,
Such virus checking software is broken.
does not work with many mailing lists (that are configured to
remove attachments),
Such mailing lists are broken.
does not work with web archives of mailing lists (for example
http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg03690.html),
That's not an example for PGP/MIME, but an example for mailing list
archiving software not being able to cope with RFC announcements as
sent out by the RFC editor. This is another instance of broken
software. Nice try, though.
does not work with newsgroups.
Why not?
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Thomas Roessler <roessler(_at_)does-not-exist(_dot_)org>