Re: gpg et co

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.07.12 11:56:33 +0100 Maciej Golebiewski wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:00:38  
>  christophe barbé wrote:
> >I've not yet start coding it but I can't see where libmutt could be
> >helpfull or not here ? In my mind it's a feature that could be integrated
> >in the gui code.
> 
> What about adding to balsa support for
> plugins written in Perl and then
> implementing PGP/GPG (or strong
> encryption like rot13 ;) ) etc. support
> in plugins?
> 

not very practical cause gpg/pgp signatures are sent in mime attachments. 
the plugin would need a way to access the whole message

honestly, i think this belongs in gnome-mime or VFS, not the mta itself.
the "neat" design would be to have balsa being a Mailbox or MessageStream
or whatnot server for Bonobo/VFS and then have a crypto server capable of 
fetching messages from balsa and oking them or not. also you could say 
take this message and give me a back a application/gpg-encripted mime attach
or a gpg-signature. having that in place, the crypto server and mail server
choices would be left to the user.
bloat ? why of course! but this is Gnome ;)

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