Re: Buttonizing and decoding based on message part contents?

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> [ ... ]
>
>> But this particular piece of obsolete functionality has no
>> replacement, correct?
>
> Well, I don't actually know if `article-hide-pgp' did anything useful
> for multiparts.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> The problem is really that people stick old-style PGP inside MIME
> parts -- the purpose of MIME is to get rid of silly magic strings like
> "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE".  In a multipart message you should use
> pgp/mime.

Yes, in an ideal world that would be the way it's done.  I usually send
out messages in that format; but sadly, there are lots of people who
send messages to _me_ who use the "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" magic
string within text/plain or application/octet-stream attachments.  The
chances of my getting each of these people to change their software and
resubmit each individual encrypted message of theirs to me in a timely
fashion is next to nil.

If there was a hook function that gets called for each message part (and
which allows me to set the display and buttonizing status for each
part), I could then write my own, personal code to handle this case, and
at the same time avoid polluting the Gnus code base with this
anachronism.


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com