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- Hi, Peter.
-
- > I just read your code and it looks like joining both versions would be
- > possible but would require pretty much effort. What do you think?
-
- I've been reading your code (it's somewhat bigger!), and it looks
- like it might be hard to merge. I guess we have a few options:
-
- 1) Don't do anything (the politician's option :-)
-
- 2) Merge one into the other (hard)
-
- 3) Take ideas from one and add it to the other, making an
- Uber-PGPsendmail package :-) and dump the other in /dev/null
-
- 4) Take ideas from each other. You target Amigas, I target Unices,
- have separate source code for each, but distribute it together so that
- people don't get confused about "competing" packages (the ultimate
- aim, I think).
-
- (3) or (4) look to be the real choice. What do you think?
-
- > > Great. One thing I'd like to throw out is ideas for header keywords.
- >
- > That is indeed a good idea. Where do you place this keyword? I would
- > use it as follows:
- >
- > To: address
- > Subject: secret: some subject
- >
- > mailbody
-
- Hm. I saw it more as:
-
- To: address(es)
- Subject: hi there
- secure: always return-receipt
- [message body]
-
- OR:
-
- To: address(es)
- Subject: Hi there
- secure
- return-receipt
- [message body]
-
- Or some such.
-
- > Then PGPSendmail would scan the subject-line, recognize all keywords
- > and insert "some subject" instead. One could even combine keywords,
- > such as
- >
- > Subject: secret+cookie
- >
- > for example. "cookie" should replace the subject line with a random
- > cookie from a database. :-) What do you think?
-
- Hm. I had planned to move the subject down into the encrpyted
- section too, but I figured on a plain "Encrpyted Message" subject line.
-
- > > I (quickly) incorporated the "secure" keyword. I've thought of an
- > > "insecure" keyword, as well as "return-receipt" or "discard-receipt"
- > > keywords. The default action for my PGPsendmail is "return-receipt".
- >
- > What do these keywords mean exactly? "return-receipt" is obvious, but
- > what do the others do?
-
- "insecure" is don't encrypt, don't even bother checking for keys.
-
- > > Also, building in more smarts, either with header keywords or
- > > configuration files to link Email addresses to public keys (for those
- > > who have a different Email address from what is on their key) might
- > > also be worthwhile.
- >
- > Very nice idea!! Hey Richard, you're worth a gold bar. I'll rename my
- > TODO file to RIL (Richard Idea List). :-)
-
- Aw, shucks. Another idea is to configure a resource file so that a
- user can default to "secure" "return-receipt" or whatever they choose.
- Also, keys/recipients can be tagged to always encrypt or never encrypt
- (why not just remove them from the keyring, you ask? Well, someone
- whooo doesn't want to receive encrypted messages, but has signed my
- key. I don't want an "unknown signator" entry :-)
-
- Regards,
-
- Richard....
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