[Enigmail] official protocol for external helper program

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Andrzej Filip wrote:
> Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>>> Is there any chance for enigmail to support some official protocol for
>>> messages signing/encrypting and verification of message signature?
>>> I have asked for support of "X-PGP-Sig:" but I will be happy to use more
>>> general solution.
>>> [e.g. execute external program, feed it XML via its stdin, read XML it
>>> produces via stdout and error/report via stderr.
>> There are a few add-ons for Mozilla available that deal in general with
>> reading/writing complete messages (i.e. incl. headers), however AFAIK
>> there is none that would offer a generic interface to just feed data to
>> stdout and read something from stdin. The main problem is that this is a
>> particularly difficult task to do in Thunderbird, and only very few
>> people know how to do it at all.
> 
>> -Patrick
> 
> Is there another "communication protocol/method" better fitted to
> Thunderbird architecture/limitations?

No, there isn't. There is no limitation of Thunderbird in this area, the
problem is just that creating an extension for tasks like the one you
would like to accomplish is difficult, and thus so far only a few people
dared to make the effort.

- -Patrick
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