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Again you have things backwards. Sure, it is possible to secure the non-MIME
subset of RFC 822 messages using your scheme. But what about when I want to
secure a MIME message? Your scheme doesn't work well, if at all, in this case.
an example of this would be useful at this point in the debate.
i may well be forgetting something, but i thought that a MIME message
has to be 822-compliant (modulo ESMTP 8-bit transport).
what does securing the MIME message itself vs. securing the
822 body get you? all i can think of is the ability to
decode a message that's been saved without it's headers.
that's not too exciting. so i must be missing the
better explanation that you have in mind.
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