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Re: (Open)PGP/MIME - Mutt vs. Evolution vs. exmh

2002-02-13 02:48:01

On 2002-02-12 21:04:15 -0800, Carl Ellison wrote:

One would think that a good standard wouldn't allow any such variability.

One would also think that a good implementation won't crash when encountering standard compliant messages (it shouldn't even crash when receiving junk).

On 2002-02-12 21:24:54 -0800, Will Price wrote:

In recent versions, we accomodated the Mutt way of encoding PGP/MIME. I don't recall exactly which version that went into. The current Eudora plugin version is 7.1.1 which is of course part of PGP 7.1.1.

May I ask what particular detail of mutt's way of encoding had to be specifically accomodated?

I'm asking because _if_ mutt is violating the standard, this would be something I'd really like to see fixed. (Yes, I am aware that earlier versions of mutt have possibly generated wrong micalg parameters, unless users paid attention. This particular problem has, however, been fixed quite thoroughly.)

Writing with the "current mutt maintainer" hat,
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Thomas Roessler                        <roessler(_at_)mutt(_dot_)org>