PMMail/2 and .vcf attachments

Simon Bowring pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:32:12 +0100 (BST)


>But you're not a lunatic, I was just wrong. :-)
Wrong again - I'm pretty sure I am in fact a lunatic (or possibly
I'm sane, but evberyone else is a loon!).

>Amazingly, Bob and Evan seem to have written this little trick into
>the VCF drag and drop code. And, as we have already seen, PMMail/2
>also does the reverse operation: if there is a PGP key in a VCF file,
>PMMail/2 tries to call PGP to add that key to your keyring (though it
>appears to do so as soon as you open the VCF file, *before* you click
>the "add" button to add the person to your address book).
>
>Of course, the PGP Key that PMMail/2 inserts in the VCF entry is
>mangled with tabs and other things, which aren't getting properly
>reconverted when PMMail/2 tries to import the key (a bug, I would
>say).
>
>That seems to be the end of the mystery.

Great - if you can just fix the bug and document the behaviour,
world peace will most likely result ;-)

Thanks Trevor,

Simon