(forw) Re: mutt sends signed messages as multipart attachments?
Here's a rather long thread, snipped quite a bit by me, from the mutt
mailing list talking about attachments that MS Outlook Express (and
others) users get from *some* people who use mutt... Take it for what
it's worth.
Hall
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% > % noticed that even when you do send mail as t
% > % pgp_create_traditional, i still sends it as multipart. That's t
% > % part of the problem. Shouldn' t
Furthermore, this is what I get with pgp_outlook_compat=yes as well:
...
In both cases my Content-Type: is application/pgp, while you definitely
have multipart/signed, so it seems as though your mutt config is wonky
somehow. Of course, pinning that down is the tricky part...
% > I have successfully used $pgp_create_traditional, both with and
% > without the patch for $pgp_outlook_compat, to generate old-style
% > emails, so I know that it *can* be done. Why it isn't happening for
% > you at the moment simply needs to be ferreted out.
%
% Cool. I hope the info above helps there. If not, let me know what is
% needed.
% I'd really like for this to *not* to turn into a philosophical debate,
% or worse, a holy war, about "the right way to do things". I have no
Oh, but that's what's fun, and it distracts from the real problem :-)
% doubt that Mutt is doing it the right way by following the latest
% accepted RFCs. Unfortunately, everyone else out there is doing it "the
% wrong way", but that's no reason for us to put up an iron curtain.
% My mother isn't real computer savvy (I can't seem to get her to stop
% sending mail in all caps :), and her email skills are limited to "real
% BTW, I have managed to get a single part message signed inline, but
% it is a real pain in the ass. It involves the macro compose S "Fgpg
% -a --clearsign -u . . ." method. It does the job for now, but it is
% pretty ugly. There must be a cleaner way to do this.
There definitely should be. Interestingly enough, though, if that works
for attachments then that's the only way to go to get an encrypted email
with attachment included over to an Outlook user without making it
tough. I have yet to try out that one, though...
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