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How's the UTF-8 e-mail address support? As most clients suck so bad at that it would be awesome to have an alternative.

How's the GPG and S/MIME support? We'd really need an e-mail client that has first class support of both. Current solutions I've tried are cumbersome at best.

Having those two it'd actually be the best e-mail client for me.



UTF-8 support is excellent.

First-class PGP support is planned and a blocker for 1.0, but not there yet. Here's a mockup to tease you:

https://cmpwn.com/system/media_attachments/files/000/351/218...

https://cmpwn.com/system/media_attachments/files/000/351/219...


I was about to ask about PGP support too so thanks for the screenshots, they look great!

Is PGP key discovery based on email planned/welcome? I'm talking about Web Key Directory introduced by GnuPG [0], being standardized by IETF [1] and already used by kernel.org [2], gentoo.org and others. GUI e-mail clients such as Enigmail or Mailpile support it but there is not CLI client with WKD.

[0]: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-s...

[2]: https://www.kernel.org/category/signatures.html#using-the-we...


Yes, I'd love to have WKD support.


What about S/MIME support ?


Naturally.


> UTF-8 e-mail address support?

hard pass on this as it encourages dark patterns.


You mean like speaking any other language besides english?


I think he is thinking about that some letters look identical but are encoded differently. So someone will not be able to look at an email address and say: oh it’s from such and such.


Trusting one's eyes is doomed to failure anyway. That's what PGP is for.


That's a side-effect of UTF-8, yes, but my primary concern was indeed non-English e-mail addresses, people should have the right to use their own names. You have GPG for identity validation though.


good luck getting your mom to implement that.


It's not like your mom without UTF-8 and without GPG is protected against phishing either. UTF-8 lookalikes are only a teeny-tiny fraction of any phishing.

It's stupid anyways to rely on never having UTF-8 because most clients do it to the extent of making lookalikes possible, but not so that it's usable for internationalized e-mails. If anything, e-mail clients should have built-in warning against such attacks as well as you using proper methods of determining who you're e-mailing.


my mom is using a linux CLI mail client?




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