Re: Balsa Encrypts messages with GnuPG!

[Jack Coates <jack monkeynoodle org>]

The way I've always seen it done by PGP or GPG is each section of the
message is encrypted separately - body, attachment 1, attachment 2, etc.
This was on Outlook, Eudora, and Pine.

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Alan O wrote:

>
> On 2001.01.03 00:49:09 -0500 Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
>
> > Why would you bundle message and attachments together ?  One would like
> > to
> > be able to read parts of the e-mail selectively.
> > My understanding is that in the normal IMAP operation attachements are
> > not
> > even dowloaded from server until you explitely request them. And one may
> > want
> > to open some attachements but not the others.
> >
> >                                         Dmitri Pogosyan
>
> I've never used IMAP, but I'm familiar with the basic concept. I know that
> with POP mail, when you send the RETR n  command, you get the whole
> message, attachments and all, MIME encoded. The email client then parses
> out the attachments. In IMAP is this done on the server? If so, that would
> be a good case for encrypting everything separately.
>
> That's good. I've always used POP, so I hadn't looked at it from that
> angle.
>
> I just encrypted a message with Kmail, and it did the same thing Balsa does
> now, encrypting the typed message, but not the attachments. I think it all
> needs to be encrypted, including attachments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
>
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