Hi Geoff, Nic's notes to the list are sent with a digital certificate. I think that he applied for one of these using the Comodo digital certificate source that was discussed in the Take Control Guide for Apple Mail. However, even under Snow Leopard, Nic's posts come with an extra "Unable to verify message signature. There was a problem reading the digital signature for this message." and a "Show details" button if you navigate back from the message content scroll area. I'm not of aware of this when I read mail on my iOS devices, but I can find this if I look for it using Apple Mail in Snow Leopard (and I think it also showed up in Leopard, too).
A year ago, this happened when Gordon tried to set up a digital certificate for Lynne from Comodo. When he tried sending mail secured with digital certificates (from another service -- not Comodo), there would be an extra line in at the end of the heading "Security: Signed (Gordon Smith)" after the "Reply-To:" field line. But when I examined similar posts from Lynne. I'd get the same "Unable to verify message signature". I think what you're seeing depends on which account Lynne has been using -- the one with the separately purchased digital certificate or the free one from Comodo. It's not a bug in Lion, it's just that it was possible to ignore this in Snow Leopard or Leopard unless you examined the headings in detail. HTH. And I did write to Nic off list last November mentioning that I'd noticed this weird behavior with his digital certificates. In the case of Gordon and Lynne's digital signature certificates, there may have been some on or off list posts last July. Cheers, Esther On Jul 23, 2011, at 07:49, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been cheating a bit. I intend to do what it takes to make friends with > the new Lion layout and preview pane, but Lion has generated so much traffic, > that in the interest of time I've been primarily using my trusty Netbook and > MSIE. > > I don't know when this started since before Lion I've normally reviewed this > list on the Mac, but since Lion, I've observed that I cannot read any posts > authored by Nicolai Svendsen without opening a text attachment in Notepad. > As I suspected Nic's posts appear normally in AppleMail. Today I noticed the > identical behavior with a post authored by Gordon, even though Lynne's are > perfectly readable in MSOE. According to the header, the characteristic that > seems to trigger this is that most posts have a message type of "plane text" > while the ones from Nic and Gordon are "multipart mixed". I know I've had no > problems reading multipart messages in MSOE previously, hence wonder if there > is some kind of Lion bug that broke a standard, rendering it more difficult > for those reading on other platforms? > > Best regards. > Geoff <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
