From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: stored mail differs from the sent
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:45:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m365bspw7b.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87n055vtnv.fsf@spacecentre.se>
Thomas Persson <thomas@spacecentre.se> writes:
> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> The archived message is not corrupt. It verifies correctly for me in
>> Gnus 5.10.
>
> I tried the same procedure of signing and sending a mail to myself but
> this time with an email account where the MTA didn't convert the
> content-transfer-encoding from quoted-printable to 8bit and this time
> neither the archived nor the received mail verified correctly.
This is probably a bug in Mailcrypt as your previous QP example
verified for me.
> I have done some research and my working theory is that digitally
> signed messages cannot be quoted-printable. Is this correct?
Yes and no. If your message includes 8bit characters you shouldn't
really be using old-style inline PGP in the first place. However, if
you do, the message should be QP encoded.
The right thing for messages with non-ASCII characters is to use
PGP/MIME which works reliably in this case.
> What I have to do then is to make sure that emacs sets the
> content-transfer-encoding to 8bit whenever I send a digitally signed
> message. There is a variable called
> `mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults' but I feel that I do not
> enough about this yet.
That is the wrong approach. As I suggested previously you should
rather upgrade to Gnus 5.10 (and use PGP/MIME). If you really *must*
use inline PGP in combination with 8bit, then this works in 5.10 as
well.
--
Jesper Harder <http://purl.org/harder/>
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2004-04-21 9:21 ` Thomas Persson
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2004-04-21 22:43 ` Thomas Persson
2004-04-22 2:45 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-04-22 10:59 ` Thomas Persson
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