[dev] What to do?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Advice needed here.  To implement reading of encrypted and signed message, 
RFC 2015 allows two ways.  One allows the encryption and signature to be 
sent in the same singlepart message.  Easy enough, you pass the content 
through gnupg and get the output.  However, it also has to implement the 
way that IMP is sending the messages - namely you create a signed message 
and then encrypt this entire message.  Thus, when decrypting the message, 
you are left with a MIME_Part you need to parse.

Unfortunately, all the IMAP functions appear to work only with mailboxes - 
you can not pass in a detached message at all.  Thus, I need some kind of 
php-specific solution.  And I have found that solution, or something that 
looks really good, in PEAR:

http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pear/Mail_Mime/mimeDecode.php?r=1.28

Unfortunately, this module does not come standard with php (it did not come 
in my php-4.2.0 distribution anyway).  So what options do I have?

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder