On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:44:18PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: > > Why do certain peoples' posts to this > > list show up as attached text files in > > my mail client (OE)? I get a blank > > message with two attachments: > > .txt and .dat. The text file contains > > the actual message. > > Those are OpenPGP pgp/mime-compliant signed messages. OE support for mime is > a gross crap, so it won't display them properly. >
OE isn't any better on originating messages with mime attachments. I keep receiving them in files named winmail.dat with a bunch of garbage added to the beginning and end of the file (which fortunately can be edited out of plaintext files).
