Re: Confirmation for pgp signing needed

[Martin Schulze <joey@tapiola.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Igor Grobman wrote:
> Some time around  Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:38:41 +0200, 
>          Martin Schulze wrote:
>  > 
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>  > Hi!
>  > 
>  > For some time mail that are sent to debian-devel-changes containing
>  > a pgp signed .changes file from me contain the following header:
>  > 
>  >    Content-Type: application/pgp; format=3Dtext; x-action=3Dsign
>  > 
>  > I now have received a report that this line causes problems for one
>  > person.
>  > 
>  > Could somebody please point me to some document stating if
>  > that header is correct or incorrect?
> 
> FWIW, this is one of very very few sign methods which exmh doesn't parse 
> correctly without additional help.  The problem is that it tries to 
> mime-decode it, but doesn't know what 3Dtext/3Dsign is, so it just tells me 
> that the message is in an unknown format at which point I have to tell it not 
> to try mime-decoding it...
> 
> So what is 3Dsign ?

=3D (equal-three-dee) is '='

and application/pgp format=text x-action=sign

seems to be a pseudo standard.

Regards,

	Joey

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