On 010205, at 09:46:27, Nollaig MacKenzie wrote > On 2001.02.05 08:34:45, you, > the extraordinary Åsmund Skjæveland, opined: > > > I don't like to automatically check signatures on message opens, > > > but I'd like to be able to do it manually, yet I can't find a > > > command to do this. > > > > > > I'm not talking about setting pgp_verify_sig but rather a command > > > that I can issue to do this at any time while viewing the message. > > > > Press "|" (pipe to command) and type "gpg --verify"? > > Curiously, this gives a different result from the check > done by Mutt's invocation of GPG; See the attached message from Thomas Roessler for an explanation of PGP/MIME. Piping doesn't include the MIME headers, so the signature won't be valid. -- David Ellement
On 2000-10-03 01:45:02 +0300, Eugene Paskevich wrote: > Can you explain what do you mean? app/pgp is Content-Type; > but what is PGP/MIME? And is it the way decide my problem? PGP/MIME is what mutt uses to send pgp-encrypted and -signed messages. The idea is basically this: You take the message, then MIME-encode it entirely. The result looks like this (for example): Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This attachment contains umlauts: =E4=F6=FC=DF Now, this entire MIME body part is encrypted/signed, and eventually put into some more MIME sugar. Here, PGP only ever touches us-ascii text (with which it deals nicely); the actual character set conversions are left to the software which interprets the inner MIME layers. -- Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
