GPG signatures and list mail

Aaron Matteson fedora at cryptosystem.us
Wed Mar 31 19:26:41 UTC 2004


Alexander Dalloz became daring and sent these 1.0K bytes,
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I just got informed through personal mail by a list member that my GPG
> signed mail to the list, and equal mails by others, are uncomfortable to
> be read. Because of the signature the mail body comes as an attachment
> (ATT?????.txt) in text format. I think this is very uncomfortable for
> those readers, and being forced to open an attachment ...

I feel for him, i really do. Perhaps they should look into a mail client
such as Thunderbird. I think this would resolve to his his comfort level,
otherwise "oh well".
 
> The reader who informed me is using Outlook Express. I would now like to
> know if there are other users and clients having difficulties with GPG
> signed mails.

See above, only problems i have ever seen where when people use outlook
or outlook xpress.

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