Re: Odd issue with a few mailing lists..

[Thomas Bolioli]

They're S/MIME digital signatures. Eudora has a habit of automatically extracting (and severing) attachments and plopping them on the drive somewhere of the user's choosing, providing a link to it in the email. Most of us use clients that behave radically different. Eudora should probably not extract attachments at all or be more selective in what it extracts. Note: I am not trashing Eudora, I used if for 6+ years on both Windoze and Mac. Just that one thing always got to me. I wish they would make an option to turn off that behavior since the attachments can easily get lost and unlinked from the original email. Like when I moved to Apple Mail, I have thousands of emails missing the attachments...
Tom

Evan Platt wrote:

I only seem to have this problem on this list and the mrtg lists... however a number of messages come with attachments. Looking at them, they appear to generally be PGP keys. Not a major issue, but now I have dozens of them (well, more).

Not to pick on people, but just in the last few days, I see it from Theo Van Dinter, Michael Parker, Thomas Bolioli, and that seems to be it for the past week or so.

I'm using Eudora Windows 6.2.1.2. Any way to turn this off? The entire contents of the attached file appear as below: (This from Theo)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFCE8iE0n2PaNPSwnMRAuOTAKCXsRD0TxFAFaj3+I4dx45u8RY92gCgtOI5
qiTu8706EiipoyH+Rx5SXOU=
=Xdgp
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

As a test, I e-mailed myself the contents of the attached file, and it did not convert it to an attachment.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Evan

smime.p7s

Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature