server for sale
Corey Edwards
tensai at zmonkey.org
Sun Aug 19 21:41:53 MDT 2007
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 20:45 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> > I see. So one has to have a proprietary extension to either Apple Mail
> > or Outlook from Thawte to use this? Sounds rather useless to me.
>
> That's not my understanding. I thought that the format of the digital
> signature was a open standard and that the only reason it didn't work
> with Outlook was because nothing that is a industry standard does.
> Are the digital email signatures that Thawte provides not a common
> format? I thought that most decent email clients understood them. No?
It's an S/MIME signed message and it works fine in Evolution. Shows up
just the same as a PGP signed message and in fact that's what I assumed
it was before viewing the details. Why have one standard when we could
have two for twice the price?
Corey
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