Re: New Draft... going forward

[Gene Hoffman <hoffmang@xxxxxxx>]

On 21 Oct 1997, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:

> * Gene Hoffman wrote:
> >Also, to defend the need for ASCII Armor parsing in a compatable
> >application I offer up the API to Exchange/Outlook. This MUA doesn't give
> >an application plugin the ability to process MIME attachments. The default
> >message interoperability mechanism is ASCII armored encrypted blocks in
> >the message body.
> 
> Is this true for picture viewers, too?

I need to clarify my words above a bit. The API does not give a plugin the
ability to easily grab currently attached attachments, modify them, and
hand them back with PGP/MIME compliant semantics. It does allow one to
grab the filenames, encrypt the files on disk, and replace the attached
names with new names to encrypted files...

Not many Win/Mac MUA's allow one to make drastic changes to the headers
and attachments to create a PGP/MIME style message.

Gene Hoffman
PGP, Inc.