From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33722 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Canonical methods for digitally signing and verifying Date: 17 Dec 2000 12:40:35 -0500 Organization: FreeBSD/Linux Hippopotamus Preserve Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <5bwvd1tsvr.fsf@brandy.cs.rochester.edu> <2n7l51s77u.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169774 26584 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:09:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B3ED049D for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:41:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB27925; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:41:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:40:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03752 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:40:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from home.acholado.net (acholado.net [216.182.19.128]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366DED049D for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:40:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by home.acholado.net (Postfix, from userid 510) id CF1FB19E96; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:40:35 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM Original-Lines: 53 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33722 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33722 Simon Josefsson writes: > Lloyd Zusman writes: > > > Assuming that my Spanish friend is using an email agent such as > > Outlook or Netscape to read my letters, and assuming that she does > > nothing to decode or verify my signature, is it likely that those two > > email clients do the right thing with the quoted printable text that > > I'm sending via gnus within my digitally signed message, and that the > > characters will be converted back into the 8bit Spanish characters > > when my friend is reading her email? > > Yes. Thanks. Not using either of those two programs for email, it would have been hard for me to verify this myself. Therefore, your answer was quite helpful. And congratulations for deciphering and understanding my long, run-on sentence! :) > > I'd like to start digitally signing ALL my outgoing messages > > Signing posts to public mailing lists is not generally useful, IMHO. > (Mostly because of all programs out there with poor MIME support, not > to mention PGP/MIME or S/MIME.) Some ML managers will even destroy > your signature to make it even more of a hassle. Well, I was thinking of configuring gnus to always sign my outgoing emails, but I guess that isn't a good idea. I suppose that I'll have to put something into my gnus setup to make the decision on a group-by-group basis as to whether a message gets signed or not. It doesn't appear that `gnus-posting-styles' can help me with this, right? Therefore, here's my idea as to how to do this: I'll use `gnus-message-mode-hook' to set a buffer-specific variable based on the group name. This variable will be a flag which is set to `t' if I want to sign my messages by default. Then, since I already have a wrapper around `message-send-and-exit', in this wrapper I'll look at this buffer-specific flag to determine whether I sign the message or not. How does this idea sound? Has anyone come up with other, more elegant ways to do this sort of thing? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com