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Re: please explain purpose of pgp_decode_command/pgp_good_sign



On 2003-12-16, seberino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote
> > > Also, what is need for pgp_good_sign??
> >
> > pgp_good_sign is useful to set if your PGP/GPG return code is bogus.
> 
> It seems another approach could have been for mutt to insist the
> PGP/GPG fix the return code if it is broken rather than trying to work
> around the bug.

Historically, the PGP folks weren't very open to suggestions that their
code was broken.  Since they weren't will to make their code behave well
(or even consistently from one release to the next), mutt opted to
provide a work around.

-- 
David Ellement