HOWTO: Programming S/MIME in Python with M2Crypto

[Richard Jones]

On Friday 30 November 2001 19:30, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > Netscape 6+ aka Mozilla aka "nobody uses S/MIME, it's not important,
> > so we won't bother implementing it" aka *grrr* ...
>
> Currently there is work done on S/MIME in the Mozilla project.

Ah yes, but until enough people said "WTF?" they were happy to see it 
implemented some time after their 1.0 release.


> > You need to revert to a _useful_ email package, like the one with
> > Netscape 4.7 or Outlook (the only two mail packages that I know of that
> > support S/MIME in a graphical environment.)
>
> Note that Netscape 4.x has interoperability problems with e.g.
> wrapped header lines which affects e.g. S/MIME e-mails sent by
> Outlook...

On the other hand, Outlook doesn't handle an S/MIME sub-part and Netscape 
does. Ahh, it's an imperfect world :)


    Richard