Re: please explain purpose of pgp_decode_command/pgp_good_sign
David
I would guess GPG is more predictable and well behaved partially
because it is open source?
If I use GPG do I need pgp_good_sign?? I suppose one
test is to omit it and see if all is well still.
Chris
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:21:04AM -0800, David Ellement wrote:
> 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
>
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