Re: SFL and Balsa

[wil <wil dready org>]

I think Timothy is referring to S/MIME the message signing/encryption 
standard. I'm sure it would be a feasible task. Have you personally used 
SFL or looked into its API? I would think that OpenSSL would be a better 
choice since it is already being used by Balsa in the IMAP code.

Another thing is, it is fairly difficult to both support S/MIME and PGP at 
the same time (I don't even know of any commercial mailer that can do it). 
GPG Made Easy is an API that is supposed to be generic but it looks pretty 
young a project.


wil.

On 10 Oct 17:43 Brian Stafford wrote:
>On Tue,  9 October 18:19 Timothy Ang wrote:
>>  Hi!
>>  Has anyone tried integrating SMime Freeware Library in C++ with Balsa 
>>1.2
>>  before?
>
>What purpose would this serve?
>
>Balsa already has MIME support in libmutt.  Even if libmutt is eliminated
>from balsa, Gmime would be a better choice for MIME for at least four 
>reasons,
>it is part of the Gnome project, it is written in C, it has a reasonable 
>API
>and it is licensed under the LGPL.
>
>One other major question that must be asked: is the library a rigorous
>implementation of RFC 2045-9 et al?  It is my experience that many
>implementors (but I don't know about this specific case) are not good at
>reading the RFCs (not that easy actually) and consequently produce
>non-compliant code as a result.  Better the devil you know ...
>
>Regards,
>Brian Stafford
>
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