Subject: Unrecognized format, what should pine do?

From: [email-masked] (Klaus Wacker)
Date: 14 Mar 1995 15:37:55 GMT

If I get mail with the following header:

 Content-Type: application/pgp; format=mime; x-action=signclear; x-originator=71FB29E1

pine tells me (I don't have pgp installed):

  [Part 1, Application/PGP  1.2KB]
  [Can not display this part. Use the "V" command to save in a file]

If I read the same message with elm, I get:

This message contains data in an unrecognized format, application/pgp,
which can either be viewed as text or written to a file.

What do you want to do with the application/pgp data?
1 -- See it as text
2 -- Write it to a file
3 -- Just skip it

I find the elm behaviour much more helpful, as I know that in this
case I can chose option 1 and be able to read the text. Is there some
option in pine which allows me to do that? If not, would the pine team
consider implementing something similar?

(Yes, I know, I could install pgp, but that is a different discussion)

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