On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:00:03 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Please for reasoning below. If mailcrypt is useless, lets remove it.
mailcrypt is not useless -- it was just used wrongly. In other
words, PEBKAC. mailcrypt still does what is has always done just as
well.
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:17:43PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Hi, On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:34:25 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > Package: vm Version: 7.19-11 Severity: important
>>
>> > I have been voting in Debian elections since whenever we started
>> > them, and I always used vm + mailcrypt.
>>
>> > Well, not this year.
>>
>> Yup. Things have a way of moving on, don't they?
>>
>> > Somehow vm now manages to incorrectly mime-wrap the signed vote
>> > to upset devotee. Manoj, it would be nice if you could figure
>> > out if your vm package is broken, or if your devotee software is
>> > at fault.
>>
>> Neither devotee nor vm are broken.
>>
>> VM is not at fault, since it does not really involved in sending
>> mail, nor in creating the signed message. When you invoke mail
>> sending commands in vm, including reply, you are thrust into a bog
>> standard emacs mail mode. What happens next is based on the code
>> for that mode, nothing to do with VM.
>>
>> Secondly, mailgrypt is old, hoary, and does not produce RGC 3156
>> compliant mail -- it just creates a RFC 2440 message, which, if it
>> is not 7 bit clean, is quote-print protected by emacs mail
>> mode. Which causes your votes to fail.
> Funny how it worked for, uhh, dunno, a decade?
That seems to express a profound ignorance of how things
work, and what failed now. mailcrypt is not at fault either -- it
never created a PGP/MIME message. Emacs mail mode did the right thing
also -- it say a diacretic, and proceeded to protect it. It did not
know the body was a PGP message.
If the body of the mail being signed did not have non ascii
characters, mailcrypt + emacs would not have produced mangled
mail. Since this is the first ballot which has a character like ë,
no wonder mailcrypt and emacs appeared to work before.
ftp masters, please feel free to close the bug.
manoj
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You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman. Kirk to Yeoman Rand,
"The Enemy Within", stardate unknown
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