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Subject: Re: MIME and mailcrypt
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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> Hrvoje> Or, am I missing something?
> 
> I think what you are missing is that mailcrypt (through PGP)
> encloses the entire message buffer, from the '--text follows this
> line--' line to (point-max).  In other words, mailcrypt has no idea
> what a multipart message is.

This sounds like a design deficiency in mailcrypt.  But it sounds
fixable; a PGP-enhanced message.el could create the MIME wonder, and
then call mailcrypt on the result, and then trivially insert the
multipart/signed junk around it.  This could be done around the time
when `message-send-hook' is run, or even after that.

The only thing that should be "fixed" in mailcrypt is the dependency
on "--text follows this line--"-style message; ideally, a mailcrypt
function should be called to handle the encryption/signing of a
textual region, and it should return the result in Lisp.

If this process bombs out, the user should be presented with the
original message buffer, MML and all.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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