Mailer hooks for PGP
Graham Toal
gtoal at an-teallach.com
Fri Sep 10 12:47:49 PDT 1993
In article <9308271722.AA11690 at ah.com> hughes at ah.com writes:
> >check your public ring and automatically sign/encode outgoing mail to
> >eligible users
>
> As a general rule, mere presence of a key on a keyring should not
> indicate that this person wishes to receive encrypted mail. There
> should be a separate installation for that, either by an enhanced
> alias file or similar. There are many for whom reading encrypted mail
> is not always desirable, because the effort required to download it
> and decrypt it is more time than the content is worth. I myself fall
> into this category, unfortunately.
This is very true. I hacked my mailer to encrypt when possible, and it
drove Phil Zimmerman batty every time I mailed him and forgot to
override it.
G
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