[Wolves] Whence the ASCII armoured gpg signatures?

[Iain Cuthbertson]

It was so that thunderbird plays more nicely with GPG.

We actually tinkered with these things at one of the LUG meetings and
found that setting it as a mime attachment worked best all around.

Iain

On 05/01/15 15:45, Dave Morley wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:34:54 +0000
> Peter Cannon <dick_turpin at archlinux.us> wrote:
>
>> On 05/01/15 14:33, Alex Willmer wrote:
>>> Iain and Ron,
>>>
>>> I just noticed you're both signing emails with MIME encoding, as
>>> opposed to inline ASCII armoured (------BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE ....).
>>> At a glance Ron switch around April last year, and Iain Sept 2013.
>>>
>>> Was this a conscious decision you made? If so what motivated it?
>>> Do you do the same for all your emails? Or do you still sometimes
>>> use ASCII armoured?
>>>
>>> Inquisitively, Alex
>>>
>> Just so it's on record: I don't care either way. :-)
>>
> I'm guessing at different plugin/email client, I know Ron went distro
> hopping but would most likely install thunderbird so I assume a
> change to the default plugin maybe? As for Iain well it's Iain it's
> probably a php thing or again an evolution/thunderbird plugin change :)
>
>
>
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