[Gpg4win-devel] Claws Mail status

[Reinhard.Irmer@skba.de]

von Werner Koch
>On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:21, Reinhard.Irmer at skba.de said:
>
>> I'm familiar with gpg4win. I use it since version 1.x and it works
>> fine.  But I do not want to change to gnupg2, gpa and so on; the
>> normal gpg like in version 1.1.3 with WinPT is enough for 
>me. The only
>
>Note that WinPT is not maintained anymore.  Not being maintained is bad
>for any software but for security software it is even worse.
>
>Eventually I will even send out a end-of-life statement for gpg 1.4
>installer under Windows because it is to cumbersome to maintain a
>separate version for Windows.  There are some reasons to keep on using
>gpg 1.4 but that does not cover any desktop applications and thus
>installer support for gpg 1.4 will eventually be dropped.  In turn that
>means that we can't support gpg4win 1.x any longer (at least not based
>on gpg 1.4).

I understand, but my problem is not GnuPG. It was the non-function of
the nntp-part in Claws-Mail in former versions. With the last
....svn929.exe it seems to be fixed. I copied the claws-mail.exe and
some *.dll to the gnupg-folder, started cm, and now nntp-traffic with
the Hamster is possible.

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regards
Reinhard