Hi Esther, That is correct. I don't know why Comodo's signatures are generating so much trouble, as some Windows users can't even read these, and it seems that these signatures show up as being invalid. I didn't see this in Snow Leopard at all, but in Lion, it slaps me in the face so I certainly can't avoid seeing it. I'll have to see if I can perhaps figure out what causes this problem, since Comodo's never had this problematic digital certificates before, but hopefully, there a workaround or something similar. I'd like to fix this to avoid complaints, since I know that some people have had reason to believe I was a spammer, or in the case of Windows users completely unable to view my emails, been blocked by their mail clients.
Regards, Nic On Jul 23, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Esther wrote: > 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/>
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