On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:14:50PM -0000, Ben A L Jemmett 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.
I'm sending a MIME message with 2 parts, the first of type text/plain
and the second of type application/pgp-signature. According to RFC 2049
a MIME compliant client must do among other things the following
(quoting from that document):
(6) Explicitly handle the following media type values, to
at least the following extents:
Text:
-- Recognize and display "text" mail with the
character set "US-ASCII."
<snip>
-- Treat material in an unknown character set as if
it were "application/octet-stream".
As my message is just "text", every compliant mail user agent should
show that. It should handle my signature just as
"application/octet-stream" if it doesn't support signatures. As always
with M$ their software ignores every standard, I don't understand why
people are still using crappy non-free software from microsoft. But if
you really insist doing so, complain to microsoft about the bugs in it.
I'm not going to change my habit of signing every message I sent because
of some broken mail user agent.
Jeroen Dekkers
P.S. I don't want to start a flame war about using non-free microsoft
software, just tell my opinion. If you want to discuss about it with me,
I think it's better to do that in private e-mail.
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