[imp] Replying to pgp-encrypted messages: no body

Oliver Kuhl okuhl at netcologne.de
Wed Apr 14 23:15:32 PDT 2004


Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> Quoting Oliver Kuhl <okuhl at netcologne.de>:
> 
>> there is another problem with pgp encrypted emails. If I reply to a
>> correctly decrypted email, the text of the decrypted original message is
>> not shown in the compose window. So there is nothing to quote. :-(
> IMP has never supported this (this goes back to the discussion of 
> embedded MIME
> information I had earlier).
Oh, I didn't know that.

> I have never figured out a way to do this without adding some seriously 
> hackish
> code (and a lot of it) to IMP - and I just looked at it again, and I still
> can't figure out a way to do this elegantly.  So, for now, I think I 
> will just
> put something like "[Encrypted original message]" for the reply text.
I understand. But that is not really comfortable. As long as I do not 
understand the whole MIME stuff, I am not able to make any suggestion here.

Thanks for your replies.

Gruss,
    Ollie.


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