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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by pinky on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @09:06

>How about using a distribution which provides a proper setup to you?

I think this would be the wrong way.
Why pgp/mime works by many other email clients?
Sure, a distribution could make the necessary steps in the howto and offers his users kmail with gpg/mime.
But i think the right way would be that kmail would offers by default gpg/mime support if gpg is installed.
Why does other mailclients uses gpg/mime with any stable gnupg versions (also older ones) and kmail need some special packages?

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Anonymous on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @09:40

> Why pgp/mime works by many other email clients?

Because their packagers set the right dependencies and compile them with such support?

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Ingo Klöcker on Friday 05/Nov/2004, @06:02

You have to ask the Aegypten team (http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/) if you want to know why they preferred such a nicely modularized design. Actually, it is GnuPG which is getting much more "complicated" (because it's much more modularized). Any mailclient that wants to use GnuPG 2 will have to use it via the gpgme library because using the gpg2 executable and all the helper applications directly will be extremely difficult. That's exactly why gpgme exists (gpgme means "GnuPG Made Easy"). And, BTW, KMail doesn't need any special packages. It just needs GnuPG 2 and a recent version of gpgme. It's GnuPG 2 which needs all those other special packages.

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