While full functionality can be achieved for rendering images, shareware MPEG players have a lot of room for improvement. For this reason Sparkle is the recommended solution which can play Quicktime movies as well. When using MIME the encoding scheme is fixed as Base64 and all MIME compliant tools handle this scheme properly. However if they do not recognise the attachments, a decoding tool is needed to reconstruct the binary information. Although not strictly necessary for mail, compression tools are useful if large files have to be exchanged because in compressing the data, the time for the mail to be sent is reduced.
Various tools can implement similar schemes of compression.
This is the international version which is compliant with the US version PGP 2.6.2. This violates export restrictions in these countries. The following recommendations describe how to utilize PGP in the most effective way. Please consult the original PGP documentation for more information. This can either be done manually or automatically using a suitable software tool.