-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>The right way to add text to a signed and/or encrypted mail would, I believe, >be by adding a new MIME part, just like Mailman does. The disclaimer won't be >signed or encrypted, of course, but then again it doesn't really contain any >information. Not all signed/encrypted email is MIME (such as this email, at least when it left here) ! So you need to understand more than one signing format to have a chance of getting things correct Also, as someone who regularly signs their email, I am very used to people with less capable email clients (such as some of those made in the Pacific Northwest of the USA) asking me why I keep sending extra attachments with funny characters in... viz: you cannot assume that every client will properly cope with multiple attachments in a good way So the proper answer is that the text should be put there by the originating email systems. If you want to second-guess the need for the disclaimer (or company info -- which is only needed in the UK on "business email"... and I really don't think this email is "business" (though it's hardly "pleasure" either)) then by all means do a check for it as the mail passes by... simple, elegant and avoids a lot of scope for making emails unreadable at the far end :( Nigel was asking about the legality of altering email. IANAL [though I try to keep up to date on these things], but I strongly suspect that the underlying issue that people are vaguely remembering is the ECommerce Directive notion of "mere conduit". ISPs that alter email passing through their systems lose this statutory defence (although they could well still have many other defences against liability). However, "mere conduit" would not be an issue for a corporate email system -- and I cannot see that their liability for an email changes one way or the other by an automated addition of text (or mangling of headers or whatever). - -- richard Richard Clayton They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBRcm4P5oAxkTY1oPiEQI/MACg+ur/JzhDrCDjan5+FdEJ5uu7cnIAnA50 WaLPgJ2kTaTLLk3Rl3r+M9pi =m1vB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
