On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:14:50 -0000
Ben A L Jemmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That stupid non-free M$ client is just broken and almost everybody
> > knows that.
>
> Uh-*huh*. It shows the message as an attachment because that's precisely
> what your client is sending; an empty message body, followed by a set of
> MIME headers indicating an ASCII QP-encoded attachment, followed by your
> message, followed by another set of MIME headers indicating the PGP
> signature follows, which indeed it does.
>
> The body of your message belongs in the actual message body, surprisingly
> enough, not a MIME attachment. The PGP signature ought to go in the
> headers, seeing as it's machine-readable metadata.
No, what it actually did was send a multi-part mime message. There were no
attachments, at least not that I got. The body of the message consisted of
two parts, the text message and the PGP signature. My mail client correctly
recognized it as a multipart message and displayed it appropriately.
Daniel
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