Mailer hooks for PGP

[Graham Toal <gtoal@an-teallach.com>]

In article <9308271722.AA11690@ah.com> hughes@ah.com writes:
 > >check your public ring and automatically sign/encode outgoing mail to
 > >eligible users
 > 
 > As a general rule, mere presence of a key on a keyring should not
 > indicate that this person wishes to receive encrypted mail.  There
 > should be a separate installation for that, either by an enhanced
 > alias file or similar.  There are many for whom reading encrypted mail
 > is not always desirable, because the effort required to download it
 > and decrypt it is more time than the content is worth.  I myself fall
 > into this category, unfortunately.

This is very true.  I hacked my mailer to encrypt when possible, and it
drove Phil Zimmerman batty every time I mailed him and forgot to
override it.

G
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