From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49389 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What method do *you* use for signing Usenet posts? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:25:01 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87d6mtf3tq.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <87znpwrjoa.fsf@unix.home> <87el78eqce.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <87hec4g22z.fsf@unix.home> <87k7h0af7g.fsf@eris.void.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043058328 21205 80.91.224.249 (20 Jan 2003 10:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18aZ7J-0005V8-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:25:21 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18aZ7K-0006Pk-00; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 04:25:22 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 20 Jan 2003 04:26:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA23220 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 04:26:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0KAP1Rr007332 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:25:01 +0100 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030120:ding@hpc.uh.edu:aa0d2a5e6fc12e2c X-Hashcash: 0:030120:ding@hpc.uh.edu:aa0d2a5e6fc12e2c In-Reply-To: <87k7h0af7g.fsf@eris.void.at> (Andreas Fuchs's message of "Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:30:51 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: 1Yn@M+tp9bHO[8c_KMq4EAehxF;z,'j|yrivOiG+mxk$hnZac61A{@h6 writes: > I wonder - why does the user have to decide such things? Would it not > make more sense to just specify the method and let gnus itself figure > out whether it should use mime or not (i.e. if there is a mime part, use > detached signatures, if not, use plain pgp)? The user will ultimately have the control, but suggesting a useful default would be good. OK, what about a setting that makes Gnus always use the sign/encrypt style of the original message? It shouldn't be PGP specific, but support S/MIME too, of course. Another setting would be to make Gnus always sign outgoing mail using the "most appropriate" setting. The most appropriate setting would be configurable, using a predicate like '(if multipart "pgpmime" "pgp")' or "smime" or whatever the user prefers. Making a variable that makes Gnus sign/encrypt outgoing mail based on a regular expression matching the recipient is more tricky -- what to do when several recipients are specified, and only one match? Ideally one unsigned and one signed message should be sent, to the appropriate recipients, but there is no framework for this right now AFAIK.