On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 08:44:13AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 02/09/11 07:29, Aaron Toponce wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:01:51PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >>On 01/09/11 15:55, Chris Brennan wrote: > >>>Every e-mail I've gotten so far, has had the foot on it... So I think > >>>it's safe to say, always does apply in my case. > >>> > >>... but this one didn't here. > >> > > > >Because the mail was cryptographically signed (an semi-explanation is > >elsewhere in this thread). Adding footers to the body will break the > >signature, so they're not added. > > Actually, it was, but not displayed (in T'bird) > > From the source: > > ---------------- > [...] > Uz+i+oZpal+xZejM78QhoRd5zXEA1u2PX6RJKx6mKfdasK7yPeBMofD4IiFGzTE= > =P8mz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------enigBD75A24B357A90CE063900B7-- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 4E5F9CF4.5090100@xaerolimit.net">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 4E5F9CF4.5090100@xaerolimit.net > > ----------------- > > So, it looks like the footer is applied to *all* messages; but the > MUA may, or may not, decide to display it. It would seem to be a MIME problem. As the signature is simply tacked on at the end, this works fine for simple messages. But text outside a MIME message is... sort of orphaned. Ideally, the message processor should be clever enough to add the signature in another multipart/related part. -- Darac Marjal
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature