First of all, I know that this has been collected under bug 217540 and bug
217541, but I'm not sure what the status of those is.

I would really appreciate if Evolution could support sending and receiving
Inline-PGP, in addition to the existing S/MIME support which is just fine.
 I understand that Inline-PGP is too primitive and cannot handle HTML mail,
attachments, exotic message types, etc.  Yet, I receive several messages a
day which are signed using Inline-PGP (see Debian security announcements as
a prominent example), which I cannot verify in Evolution.  Furthermore,
those people with whom I need to communicate using encrypted e-mail just
don't have mailers that can handle S/MIME.  It is still common for many of
them to cut-and-paste PGP blocks into their message composition windows,
and will stay that way for the foreseeable future.

So, even if Inline-PGP is inferior and cannot be done "right" in the
general sense, I do need at least rudimentary support for it in Evolution.
 It's fine if it only works for plain text messages, and it's fine if it
doesn't handle attachments.  Right now, I'm forced to do all my encryption
and decryption outside of Evolution, because the rest of the world simply
doesn't understand S/MIME.

I appreciate a lot that Evolution already handles the more advanced S/MIME
standard, and I understand that you are busy implementing all sorts of
other important things.  This is much appreciated; I've really fallen in
love with Evolution, if I may say so.  Just, please... could you have
another look at putting Inline-PGP back in -- thank you.