On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:21:37PM -0600, CW Harris wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in > > multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text. > > > > Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happily > > displays the plain text part and ignores the HTML. > > > > However, when he quotes one of my PGP-inline-signed posts, and doesn't > > delete the "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----" line, mutt acts as if > > the plain text part doesn't exist and gives me the "text/html is > > unsupported (use 'v'......)" message. > > > > If I edit the received email and add a space at the beginning of > > "-----BEGIN PGP....", or change one character of that line, mutt is > > then happy and displays the plain text part without problems. > > > > I am not au fait with the fine details of email formatting, so I'm not > > sure if this is a bug in mutt's handling of a correctly-formed > <snip> > > Nor am I, however I did save your attachment to a file and could not > duplicate the behaviour you see, but this is with Mutt 1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i > on a mostly Sarge system. (Also, just tested on a home box with mutt > 1.5.3i - no problem.) > > Perhaps an upgrade of mutt would fix this? > > I notice there is a backport of mutt 1.5.6 on backports.org.
Installed the backports.org version and now it displays the plain text part correctly. So I deduce that (a) this is a bug in mutt, albeit not in the BTS; (b) it's only in woody's mutt; (c) there's no point reporting it as it is not security-related and therefore will never get fixed in woody, also sarge will hopefully become stable fairly soon and stable will then have a version of mutt without the bug. Many thanks. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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