On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Rejo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Mutt with support for PGP. As i'm subbed to several lists i
> sometimes see a posting with a signature of my own. Mutt tells me there
> was a 'Good signature', but also says 'This signature applies to another
> message'. What does imply this last line?

It's just PGP5 being weird.  (The technical reason is because it does
apply to another message: one 'message' is the body of the mail itself,
the signature is a second 'message', or at least as PGP5 sees them.)

Ignore it or use GPG.

> Also, when vieuwing the signature block myself, the first line after the
> opening '--- BEGIN...' says which version i'm using. The next line says
> 'MessageID: nnn' with nnn as a number which is not the same as the
> message id in the header (which is very logic as this message-id in the
> header gets added later by Sendmail). The number looks encrypted as
> well, as there are no @'s or domainname in it.

That's normal, too.

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