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  • From: Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>
  • To: Public SourceMage Discussion List <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Emails
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:56:48 +0100

On 08/02/04 23.14, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I seem to notice that a lot more people seem to have there email information
> stored in attachment instead
> of in body of email.

What you are seeing is in fact not attachements, but the (stupid,
broken) rendering of the OpenPGP multipart/signed MIME type (RFC2440)
by outlook. While most of the mails explicitly state
'disposition=inline', outlook (and a few other dumb windows mailers)
insist on showing it as attachments.

> Is this a new feature or something I need to turn off so I can see email
> straight away?
> It annoys me that I have to open an attachment to see what someone has said.

It is definately a feature, it allows the signing of arbitrary MIME
mails, without the risks of MTA-mangeling that the older style of PGP
signature, where the signature and the message was put into a simple
plaintext message.

> At present I am using LookOut under windows, as email under Linux still
> being setup.

You could change your mailer under windows, Mozilla does nicely with
OpenPGP (get the enigmail plugin, although I think mails will be
rendered correctly without (but since enigmail supply the integration
with pgp/gpg, no validation/signing/encryption/decryption is available
without)). Or get your Linux mail set up, most opensource mailers do
something sensible with multipart/signed.

/dossen

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  • [SM-Discuss] Emails, Craig Dyke, 02/08/2004
    • Re: [SM-Discuss] Emails, Mads Laursen, 02/08/2004

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