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 Message 429 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 Re: Key update w/photo 
 07 Jan 20 10:34:48 
 
TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes
TZUTC: 0100
CHRS: UTF-8 2
PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221
MSGID: 2:280/464 5e1450ba
REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e029177c

*** Answering a msg posted in area PKEY_DROP.

Hi August,

On 2020-01-06 20:23:00, you wrote to me:

 AA> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
 AA> Charset: ISO-8859-1
 AA> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

[Partly decoded and quoted ;)]

 AA> I was unable to send an encrypted reply between us in echomail.

Yes you were!? But you didn't sign this message...

 AA> BTW, If it *did* work, I wonder if that would be a violation of the
 AA> echo rules.  :(

Yes, but I think a onetime experiment should be ok.

 AA> Personally, I think this is neat (in echomail) but if anyone else were
 AA> to get no access to encrypted messages in echomail, being the messages
 AA> are just between a just a few people, then it may as well be via
 AA> email, and not be copied/echoed to multiple fidonet systems.

It defeats the purpose of echomail, so besides some experimentation, you
should send encrypted echomail...

 AA> But thanks for proving that it can be done.  I am not sure if I can
 AA> duplicate success with another editor.

You just did with @PID: OpenXP/5.0.42 (Win32). ;)


Bye, Wilfred.

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