[NTLUG:Discuss] SCO again

[MadHat]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:00, Alton R. Pouncey, II wrote:
> Didn't mean to sound like I was bitching.  It's just that your posts
> (and many other folks) have really good information in them that I want
> to see.  When nothing shows up, it frustrates me.  I'm not blaming you.
> 
> I use Evolution so maybe that's part of the problem.  However, I have
> become used to it and really don't feel like switching at this time. 
> Even if I try to reply, I don't see the body of the message.
> 

The issue is Evolution.  We went through this a little while back.   It
is that the mailer some people use are using S/MIME to sign their
messages and evolution does not support it.  I have tried talking to the
developers about a simple patch that would just display the content
instead of just dropping it, but they weren't interested.  S/MIME is not
_widely_ used presently, so I guess they don't have enough pressure to
fix it.  They have been talking about is since S/MIME came out several
years ago, but has not been an issue until recently as more clients
start implementing it (such as Netscape and Outlook).

Basically S/MIME is Secure MIME protocol that allows people to encrypt,
decrypt and sign mail messages natively within the client, rather than
having to use something like GPG.  It is based off of the existing and
long standing MIME protocol.  OpenSSL supports it.  There is a Perl
module specifically for it, the Net::SSLeay Perl module supports it I
believe, there is Java support for it, mutt has added support for it,
but Evolution does not.  gggrrrrr....

http://www.rsasecurity.com/standards/smime/faq.html

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