Hi, * Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> [02-12-07 15:23]: >On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:04:20PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> Duh. Now that I think of it, what is the reason to use MIME anyway? >The person who added that code wanted to do filtering based on MIME >attachments, e.g. disallow attachments, only allow certain types of >attachments, etc. The problem is, the module it's using to parse MIME >messages sometimes reformats paragraphs, and that breaks GPG >signatures. It really shouldn't have ever been released with that >option turned on by default. So the problem seems to be that the mail is changed, not that some option is activated by default. (Though I agree that it shouldn't.) >> >> It also seems to be unsupported. >> > >> >It's been a while since the last release, but it is still being >> >supported. >> >> I sent fixes for two small bugs to the bug tracker a year ago, but got >> no answer (It's still unfiled in fact). You can't get much more >> unsupported. > >There have been a lot of changes to it in CVS (some of them by me!), >but you're right that's it's been a long time since the last release, >and that no one's monitoring the bug tracker. I don't particularly need a release, but you should at least fix the bugs for which the fixes are included in the bug report. >> Good info, thanks. I will see whether I can get a reply there. > >Hopefully the fact that Simon has started up that mailing list is an >indication that he wants to jumpstart support for the module. I sure hope this. The broken signature is a complete showstopper. Thorsten -- I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside. - Calvin
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