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Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

  • From: Stephen Sprunk
  • Date: Wed Jul 10 12:14:08 2002

Thus spake "Leo Bicknell" <[email protected]>
> More to the point, if anyone bothered to look at a MIME/PGP message,
> that's all it is.  Specifically, you'll see two parts:
>
> ] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> ] Content-Disposition: inline
> ] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> ] Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
> ] Content-Disposition: inline
>
> If your mailer isn't showing you the first one as a text/plain
> message, even if it doesn't understand the second you need a new
> mailer.

You left out the MIME header that's actually causing the problem:

] Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5;
]  protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0eh6TmSyL6TZE2Uz"

My MUA understands multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative; it doesn't
understand multipart/signed and therefore has no clue what to do with the
message as a whole, even if it does understand one of the component's type.

If anyone has a procmail recipe for dropping the second part and promoting the
text/* to main body, I'm all ears.

S