>>>>> "Raul" == Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes: > Raul> Also note that mbox format need not be lossy -- MDA should > Raul> quote with > any line matching regexp "^>*From ", MUA should > Raul> always remove one level of quoting at display time. Any > Raul> software not following this is losing information (and > Raul> therefore buggy). On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:20:49PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > What is suppose to happen to signed messages? > > Current practise, I believe is to quote the "From" headers before the > message is signed, in which case the quoting cannot be removed without > damaging the signature. From my point of view, that's completely broken. > >From my ~/.gnupg/options file: > > # Because some mailers change lines starting with "From " to ">From " > # it is good to handle such lines in a special way when creating > # cleartext signatures; all other PGP versions it this way too. Use quoted-printable. > # To enable full OpenPGP compliance you have to remove this option. That too. > escape-from-lines > > which is really stupid IMHO, as it means the message gets converted > for mbox format before it is even sent. Yep. And there are existing MDAs which will quote >From, yielding >>From, and quote >>From yielding >>>From, etc. I happen to be using one of them. For fun, I'm going to pgp sign this message... [A quick test shows that mutt is broken if I use an MDA which does multiple >>From line quoting. Time to file a bug report.] -- Raul
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