Re: Crypto-MIME in GNUS

[Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>]

"Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@gnu.org> writes:

>  sj> Right, `message-options-set-recipient' only look at the To:
>  sj> header.
> 
> Exactly. Which is stupid. Unless the others are also you (which is not
> the standard case, imho), they won't be able to read the mail then. So
> why bother sending it to them at all?

I consider this a bug...

> ...does pretty much the same. But only almost. It only encrypts the
> following part, not the whole message. When I encrypt I normally want
> the whole thing encrypted... otherwise you run a high chance to
> insert another part and accidentally lose encryption that way.

I think this is a bug as well?  If I select that I want the message
signed or encrypted, it should wrap the entire message (with mime
parts included) as an encrypted or signed part.

does your code do this properly, or is this just a bug in mml2015?

> ...which requires much more action on the receiving part to import the
> key. With a proper MIME part, a good mailreader can import that key
> with a single keystroke. 

This is a nice thing that should be included in Gnus IMHO.  both the
sending of keys and importing.

-- 
Josh Huber