Hello Rocco, On Monday, April 15, 2002 at 1:15:41 AM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey, that's one of mine and guess what... It verifies okay here. Yes, okay here too now I've corrected effect of my broken deliver. And It should be also verified by anybody else without my problem. >> not removing the dot added in this case by SMTP. > But GPG signes the message body. So, if my postfix would remove the > leading dots the content would be changed, right? Well no. SMTP works like that. Each sender prepends a dot to lines beginning by a dot, each receiver removes it. That's true for POP3 and IMAP too: the server sends adding dots, fetchmail (or witchever client) receives and removes them. It's designed like this to be transparent, and in fact it is, in most cases... unless someone uses bad old software, like me. :-( That's done at the transfer protocol level, so PGP or Mutt are not involved, nor should be impacted, at least when all works well. Even Mutt's feature to encode first dot when quoted-unreadabling is just to be on the safe side: it should theorically not be necessary for receiving unmodified mails, in a perfect world. All this dot thing is because these protocols use a dot single on it's line to mark end of text. > So a message would have to be encoded correctly before handing it over > to an SMTP delivery process and should be deliverable without any > modifications. BTW you seem to be nearly the only one here to use PGP/MIME sigs, and to *not* use QP encoding: why? > I'll take some time tomorrow to try that with all messages which don't > verify correctly. Not necessary: I've given the only 4 touched ID's. If I follow correctly, the unverifiable you see are not the same ones... > But what is really weird that mails which cannot be verified differ > from person to person. This shows there is more than one only problem... :-( Bye! Alain.
