On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:27:59 -0700, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The relation between Rejects and Voters is currently the highest we >> ever had. I'm just asking whether we need some technical >> improvement here because I personally add a count of three to the >> rejects and have no idea how to vote successfully. > With Gnus+Mailcrypt, I was unable to vote with a signed but not > encrypted ballot. The voting daemon claimed that there was some > kind of quoted-printable problem. This surprised me: Gnus and > Mailcrypt have not caused problems for me with any previous votes. > However, this is the only ballot I recall containing non-ASCII > characters, which could be the cause. > So then I sent in a signed and encrypted ballot. This caused the > whole ballot to be base64-encoded. Presumably this sidestepped the > quoted-printable problem, because it was accepted. -- Ben Pfaff > http://benpfaff.org mailcrypt does not produce PGP/MIME mails, it signs and ascii armors a file, which is included as body of the message, and passed to Gnus. Gnus then notices there are non-ascii characters, and proceeds to protect them; which violates the integrity of the mail. My suggestion is to stop using mailcrypt, it is ancient, and hoary; pgg and easypg work a lot better. This is a case of non-functional MUA software. manoj -- Unix is a Registered Bell of AT&T Trademark Laboratories. Donn Seeley Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
