Hi,
This is a request for a GPGrelay new feature.
Is it possible to add the possibility to clearsign Usenet
posts, sent by a standard newsreader through NNTP
protocol?
I mean: newsreader connects to GPGrelay (as happens
now for mailreaders) and GPGrelay clearsigns the post
before relaying it to the newsserver.
The same thing reading newsgroups: any post with a
clearsignature is verified and PGP header & footer are
removed.
The identification of a correctly verified post could be
written like some X-Headers (KeyID, verify result,
signature time & date, etc.) into the post's headers, or
appended at the end of the verified post.
There can be also the possibility to remove only header &
footer, without verifying the signature and without
appending any x-header or text to the post, giving to
user the possibility to choose which method GPGrelay
should use (X-headers, text appended, none, and/or
remove PGP header & footer).
PGP/MIME signatures could be supported as well.
Please, tell me if it is at all possible and, in such case,
how much time is necessary to realise it.
Many thanks,
TJL73.
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Hi!
Basically this is possible.
But practically I don't have the time, and I'm not using usenet
that regularly anymore, so it's the same situation as with
IMAP-Support (but AFAIK NNTP should be easier than IMAP).
In case you're willing to add the protocol, I'm gratefully doing
the GUI-Stuff to save you work.
Of course, NNTP is a bidirectional protocol, so you can't
simply derive from the POP3-Class (as it was done with
IMAP), but some refactoring wouldn't be too bad either.
Anyway, we would need some in detail discussion here (of
course, only if you'll really start to work on this, or find
someone else to do so).
Bye!