Re: gpg et co

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2001-07-12 12:56 Maciej Golebiewski wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:00:38  
>  christophe barbé wrote:
> >I've not yet start coding it but I can't see where libmutt could be
> >helpfull or not here ? In my mind it's a feature that could be
> > integrated in the gui code.
> 
> What about adding to balsa support for
> plugins written in Perl and then
> implementing PGP/GPG (or strong
> encryption like rot13 ;) ) etc. support
> in plugins?

I don't have strong opinions about this. I would like to make just two
remarks:
1. plain passing the data through the plugin is not sufficient, the
encoded part must have proper MIME type.

2.  having a plugin mechanism/scripting support sounds like a good idea.
I think bringing up M$ outlook here is not relevant: outlook's problem
is that it allows execution of received data. There are at least two
mail clients written in an interpreted language (tkrat is the primary
example) that allow user defined procedures without exposing the user to
security risks.

my $0.02

/Pawel
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