[ILUG] mail programs that work correctly

[kevin lyda]

[from Rory Irvine of the belfast linux users group]

    Mutt does seem to be one of the very few MUAs that does things
    properly, though. Certainly, pine, Eudora and Netscape all used the
    old-stlye system last time I looked, which basically prevents them
    from signing or encrypting multi-part messages.

    Until recently, I suppose, the blame for this astonishingly stupid
    behaviour could be laid at PGP's door, since it had to be invoked
    separately, and would  do all the "application/pgp" stuff itself. Now
    that most (all?) common mailers have direct support for it, they
    have the capability to fix things up at the expense of making their
    signed/encrypted messages incompatible with older/broken mailers.

    I came across the following list of MUA's that /do/ work properly.
    People might think about upgrading to one of these:

    Mutt 
    exmh 
    premail (not really a reader, but a plugin for netscape or any client
             where you can change how sendmail is invoked)
    XCmail 
    mew (an emacs mail reader) 
    Voodo on Amiga 
    Gnus 5.6.45 with TM and Mailcrypt 
    Qualcomm Eudora (full and light version for Windows and Mac) since
                     version 3.02 with PGP 5.5.3i and 6.0.2i Plugin 
    XFMail 1.3 
    TkRat 
    Claris Em at iler with PGP 5 (?) 
    The internal mail reader of Mixmaster 2.9 
    ishmail 

kevin

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