1996-06-18 - Re: Netscape Mail Security and PGP Plugins

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From: “Chris Adams” <adamsc@io-online.com>
To: “cypherpunks” <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Message Hash: 5f69c4286de2fd37dac3f656484b3c0c9920ec667c9aad4334acedc874b73569
Message ID: <199606180604.XAA11073@toad.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-18 10:31:29 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:31:29 +0800

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From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:31:29 +0800
To: "cypherpunks" <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re:  Netscape Mail Security and PGP Plugins
Message-ID: <199606180604.XAA11073@toad.com>
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>However as has been mentioned here a PGP/MIME mail type could
>theoretically be used to activate a handler for that incoming mail.  I
>don't know exactly how this would work.  Glancing at the netscape plug
>docs near <URL:
>http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/handbook/plugins/ > it appears
>that plugins are activated on HTML page downloads, not (necessarily) on
>mail receipt.  So unless you typically find your incoming mail on a web
>page, it doesn't look like this will work.  I will ask about it on
>coderpunks for clarification.

Netscape 2 seems to support HTML in email files.  Has anyone tested it
with a plugin?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             







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