This one is very old and has spawned a few flamefests. The workaround is to use inline message signing instead of MIME... only, Evolution doesn't support and doesn't intend to support inline signing. Yet another reason why PGP/GPG is essentially stillborn in terms of widespread usage.
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:21, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello everyone > > I just discovered that my Evolution PGP signed mails are completely > messed up in outlook express... It shows two attachments, one with the > signature and one with the message. > > Now, I know this is outlooks fault (it handles MIME in a pretty weird > way), but it is very irritating since I sign *all* outgoing messages (on > my ISP account that is). > > BTW, I haven't tested this, but Kmail (with PGP/MIME plugins) should > suffer the same faith. > > The gory details as I can see is that outlook express has the strange > way to encapsulate everything as attachment (when there is at least one > attachment) and encapsulating other attachments in that. > The problem is that it doesn't know how to treat correct messages, so > they seem screwed up. > > The problem that this causes is that most people don't know or care > about this, they use Outlook and everything else is wrong... > Some even think my signatures are viruses. > > It is insane! > > Kind regards > > Guy > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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