On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 01:30:30PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> The correct solution here is that the MTA that supports 8BITMIME
> itself and wants to send an 8-bit message to another MTA that
> doesn’t offer it in the EHLO dialogue (or doesn’t support EHLO)
> *must* convert the message to QP and/or base64. And no, this
> does not invalidate PGP signatures, because these apply to the
> decoded content. (Though some exotic PGP/MIME constellations
> may exist, however I don’t use PGP/MIME and as such am not
> very knowledgeable about it.)

PGP/MIME signatures are against the encoded content, not the
decoded content. However, the encoding process moves the mail
down to 7bit.


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