[NTLUG:Discuss] SCO again

[terry]

Wayne Dahl wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 17:47, MadHat wrote:
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>>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).
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>>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....
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>>http://www.rsasecurity.com/standards/smime/faq.html
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>So why do some of them come through ok and some don't?  I've checked the
>mailers on the messages and some are sent through Mutt, some show
>Unknown mailer for the sender.  The weird thing is, some of Toms (and
>also Chris' and also one for Lance Simmons that came through) show up
>just fine and the ones that don't always have an attachment that doesn't
>appear to exist anywhere, at least in Evolution.  It wouldn't make sense
>that these people are changing their mime types randomly in their
>messages, would it?
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>Maybe I'm all wet.  Dunno.  At least I can see most of their messages
>when someone else replies to them and quotes them.
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>Wayne
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Isn't it an option ( in most any mail client ) to just use in-line 
straight text, ( no attachments ), and if everyone did, wouldn't 
everyone be able to read everyone else's posts?  Isn't that the standard 
for lists and news groups?

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