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Re: Is this a bug in mutt or a malformed email?



On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:27:07PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> | A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in
> | multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text.
> | 
> | Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happily
> | displays the plain text part and ignores the HTML. 
> | 
> | However, when he quotes one of my PGP-inline-signed posts, and doesn't
> | delete the "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----" line, mutt acts as if
> | the plain text part doesn't exist and gives me the "text/html is
> | unsupported (use 'v'......)" message.
> | 
> | If I edit the received email and add a space at the beginning of
> | "-----BEGIN PGP....", or change one character of that line, mutt is
> | then happy and displays the plain text part without problems.
> [...]
> 
> Interesting.  What version of mutt are you using?  Not too long ago
> noticed the following in changelog.Debian.gz
> 
> mutt (1.5.6-20040523+1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Updated to CVS snapshot 20040523:
>     + now mutt includes better support for inline/traditional signing and
>       encrypting. See http://www.woolridge.ca/mutt/pgp-menu-traditional.html
>       for details. (Closes: #190204)
> 
> I am using version 1.5.6-20040523+2.  Maybe that "better support" is
> what you need?

Was using 1.3.28-2, now using 1.5.6-20040523+1.backports.org.1.
Somewhere along the line the bug has been fixed, though earlier than
that changelog entry, as Chris Harris, on whose suggestion I upgraded
to the backports.org version, says it was gone by 1.5.3. From the web
page in the changelog entry, it seems that the "better support" is
concerned with making the PGP options for outgoing mail more
comprehensive, more useful and less likely to produce PGP-signed mails
that cause outhouse excess to throw a screaming fit :-)

Thanks, anyway!

-- 
Pigeon

Be kind to pigeons
Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F

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