Bug 4396 - GPG plugins description updates (for Outlook OpenPGP/MIME support and more9
Summary: GPG plugins description updates (for Outlook OpenPGP/MIME support and more9
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Website
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Assignee: users
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Reported: 2020-10-23 12:28 UTC by Bernhard E. Reiter
Modified: 2020-10-26 16:31 UTC (History)
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Description Bernhard E. Reiter 2020-10-23 12:28:16 UTC
How can the current description of the GnuPG plugins be updated best?

https://claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=gpg
today has

"
Although deprecated, the PGP/Inline method of signing or encrypting emails is still available, because some mail user agents like Outlook do not handle PGP/Mime well, more than ten years after creation of this standard.
"

since Gpg4win Version 3.0.0 released 2017-09-19 
there is an Outlook Add-in that handles OpenPGP/MIME nicely.
(https://www.gpg4win.de/change-history.html)

My suggestion is to change the last two lines to

..
"
still available, so you can switch to it for communication partners
that have still elder mail user agents that cannot handle the standard
OpenPGP/MIME.
"

(Where are those descriptions saved btw? I did not find them in the main git.)
Comment 1 Paul 2020-10-23 14:19:40 UTC
I updated the text, based on your suggestion.

You won't find these descriptions in git because they are not in git.)
Comment 2 Bernhard E. Reiter 2020-10-23 15:06:40 UTC
Thanks @Paul!
Comment 3 Ricardo Mones 2020-10-26 14:22:22 UTC
Hi,

Unless I'm missing something obvious, the Outlook Add-in mentioned by reporter 
only handles S/MIME [1], not PGP/MIME, so in my view the previous version of the text still applies.

Maybe such fact can be added, but removing the other seems a bit missleading for Claws Mail site readers.

[1] https://www.gpg4win.org/doc/en/gpg4win-compendium_33.html
Comment 4 Bernhard E. Reiter 2020-10-26 16:31:23 UTC
Hi Ricardo,
GpgOL can handle OpenPGP/MIME since version 3.0.0 of Gpg4win, where it is included. The compendium page you have linked is the old one.

See https://www.gpg4win.de/version3.html

(I now see that my original link to section "Version 3.0.0 released" of https://www.gpg4win.de/change-history.html were not specific enough about OpenPGP/MIME.)

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