application/pgp

application/pgp

[Roland Mas]

Hi again,

I sometimes receive email with the following Content-Type header:

Content-Type: application/pgp; x-action=sign; format=text

The body of the email contains a clearsigned message with the
,----
| -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
| [Blah bleh bloh bluh]
| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
| [Blah]
| -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
`----
stuff in it.

  It seems Oort Gnus is not able to understand this syntax.  I seem to
recall that it works with Content-Type: text/plain.  I don't know if
the application/pgp is an "official" MIME-type, but I would greatly
appreciate if Gnus could show me the message instead of just a button.

  Well, just my small amount of whatever currency you happen to like.

Roland.
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Re: application/pgp

[Colin Walters]

Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr> writes:

[ application/pgp ]

This actually came up on g.e.gnus recently:

<URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&ic=1&th=2be7675af2c4ca49,14&seekm=vafith8qu4t.fsf%40lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de#p>

> It seems Oort Gnus is not able to understand this syntax.  I seem to
> recall that it works with Content-Type: text/plain.  I don't know if
> the application/pgp is an "official" MIME-type, but I would greatly
> appreciate if Gnus could show me the message instead of just a
> button.

To summarize the above thread, if you're running recent Oort, it
should be enough to do:

(add-to-list 'mm-inlined-types "application/pgp")
(add-to-list 'mm-automatic-display "application/pgp")

Re: application/pgp

[Roland Mas]

Colin Walters (2001-07-15 14:33:59 -0400) :

> Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr> writes:
> 
> [ application/pgp ]
> 
> This actually came up on g.e.gnus recently:

Ooops.  I should read it more carefully, even when back from a week of
away-ness.

> To summarize the above thread, if you're running recent Oort, it
> should be enough to do:
> 
> (add-to-list 'mm-inlined-types "application/pgp")
> (add-to-list 'mm-automatic-display "application/pgp")

  Thanks.  This helps, as I now see the PGP message.  There's no
automatic verification on signatures, though, and I have to [C-c / v]
to check it.

  Call me a whiner...  I'll see if I can hack it.

Roland.
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Roland Mas

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Re: application/pgp

[Colin Walters]

Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr> writes:

>> (add-to-list 'mm-inlined-types "application/pgp")
>> (add-to-list 'mm-automatic-display "application/pgp")
> 
>   Thanks.  This helps, as I now see the PGP message.  There's no
> automatic verification on signatures, though, and I have to [C-c /
> v] to check it.

Well, I haven't really started playing with the gnupg stuff for Gnus,
but is "application/pgp" one of the standard ways to do this?  I
notice at least that Gnus wraps other people's signed messages in
[PGP: Undecided] or something.

Since hmh is the only person I know sending out "application/pgp",
maybe we could convince him to switch to whatever is more standard :)

Re: application/pgp

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:08:31 -0400, Colin Walters said:

> Since hmh is the only person I know sending out "application/pgp",
> maybe we could convince him to switch to whatever is more standard :)

The standard is RFC2015 (which will be updated soon) and it has a lot
advantages over the old application/pgp stuff.  Please take care not
to send out application/pgp - accepting this content-type it is of
course okay.

  Werner

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Re: application/pgp

[Matt Armstrong]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:08:31 -0400, Colin Walters said:
> 
>> Since hmh is the only person I know sending out "application/pgp",
>> maybe we could convince him to switch to whatever is more standard
>> :)
> 
> The standard is RFC2015 (which will be updated soon) and it has a
> lot advantages over the old application/pgp stuff.  Please take care
> not to send out application/pgp - accepting this content-type it is
> of course okay.
> 
>   Werner

Yes there is a FAQ re: mutt support of application/pgp.  The mutt
solution involves procmail munging the message into a form mutt
understands.  The application/pgp RFC is obsolete.

Re: application/pgp

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:17:51 -0700, Matt Armstrong said:

> Yes there is a FAQ re: mutt support of application/pgp.  The mutt
> solution involves procmail munging the message into a form mutt
> understands.  The application/pgp RFC is obsolete.

Which actually is to add application/pgp .... to a message if there is
no appropriate content-type and the body has those PGP armor lines.

I don't use it anymore because it gets in the way if I receive bug
reports regarding GnuPG ;-)

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Re: application/pgp

[Kai Großjohann]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Roland Mas wrote:

>   It seems Oort Gnus is not able to understand this syntax.  I seem
>   to recall that it works with Content-Type: text/plain.  I don't
>   know if the application/pgp is an "official" MIME-type, but I
>   would greatly appreciate if Gnus could show me the message instead
>   of just a button.

But maybe mailcrypt understands this kind of message?  What happens if
you invoke the corresponding mailcrypt action?

kai
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