On the use of PGP/MIME as a default
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https://lists.enigmail.net/pipermail/enigmail-users_enigmail.net/2013-January/000531.html

Hi good Enigmail people--

I'm one of the folks who helps to maintain enigmail in debian.

With the goal of improving standards-based support for signed
non-ASCII messages and signed messages with attachments, the
Debian packaging for Enigmail is undertaking an experiment with
setting the default to PGP/MIME in our experimental/unstable
packaging.  We hope this will flush out reports of other places in
the ecosystem where PGP/MIME might be suboptimal.  This change
won't make it into our stable distribution of enigmail without
further consideration and review of the reported bugs and places
where PGP/MIME causes trouble for our experimental and unstable
users.

  http://bugs.debian.org/698084

Just wanted to give a heads-up; i don't mean to re-open old wounds or
trigger a massive 100-count threadwar.

Regards,

	--dkg

 -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:04:27 -0500