PGP & GPG

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Microsoft Mail Clients and GnuPG

Because neither Outlook Express nor Outlook allow third-

party software to access the raw MIME headers used by email,

these programs don’t work well with PGP/MIME mail. If,

however, you correspond only with people who use inline

encoding, Microsoft mail clients and GnuPG will work fine.

You will have problems when people send you messages in

PGP/MIME, however.

NOTE Although the GnuPG team has a variety of clever ideas to make PGP/

MIME work anyway, as of this writing none of them is available for

public consumption.

Of course, you cannot control who sends you email, and

many people use PGP/MIME. If ...