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Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT


From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:11:41 -0500


Thus spake "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell () ufp org>
More to the point, if anyone bothered to look at a MIME/PGP message,
that's all it is.  Specifically, you'll see two parts:

] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
] Content-Disposition: inline
] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

] Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
] Content-Disposition: inline

If your mailer isn't showing you the first one as a text/plain
message, even if it doesn't understand the second you need a new
mailer.

You left out the MIME header that's actually causing the problem:

] Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5;
]  protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0eh6TmSyL6TZE2Uz"

My MUA understands multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative; it doesn't
understand multipart/signed and therefore has no clue what to do with the
message as a whole, even if it does understand one of the component's type.

If anyone has a procmail recipe for dropping the second part and promoting the
text/* to main body, I'm all ears.

S


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