Hello,
today, I received my first initially unreadable email because it was
signed. All of its mime content parts got stuffed into one attachment
named "smime.p7m". Therein, I was finally able to see the email body in
plain text when opened in a text editor and therefore could handle it.
Should PowerMail be able to decipher this attachment and show the plain
text email portion?
The header of the email (uninteresting properties removed for brevity) was:
------------------ RFC822 Header folgt------------------
X-Envelope-From: <...>
X-Envelope-To: <...>
Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:49:44 +0530
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime;smime-type=signed-data;name=smime.p7m;
smime-type=signed-data;
name="smime.p7m"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="smime.p7m"
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Subject: ...
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:49:45 +0530
Message-ID: <...>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
From: <...>
To: <...>
-----------------------------------------------------------
Within this attachment, I first found some characters which looked like
some binary data, and then:
--snip--
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01C61ABD.8460B7F0"
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C61ABD.8460B7F0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
...
------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C61ABD.8460B7F0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
...
------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C61ABD.8460B7F0--
...binary data, probably signature...
--snip--
Sure enough, Apple Mail could handle that message and told me, that it
was a signed message, and displayed its contents as usual.
So it seems like PowerMail is not (yet) able to handle this kind of
email. Are there any add-ons (external app/AppleScript script) that at
least can extract the text content part from such an smime.p7m
attachment and put it into a PM email's content property, so I can at
least read it seamlessly? If not, is it worthwhile to start such an
endeavour myself? Or is this a feature we can expect in a
(hopefully :-)) soon-to-be-released PowerMail update?
Kind regards
Christian
