* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011016 15:56]: > > > I'm trying to use PGP but getting some errors. Part of it seems tied to > the fact that I'm getting ">From: <my address>" as the first from, with a > "From: <real sender>" later in the header. > > Anyone know what's generating it? More importantly how do I get rid of it?
This is a FAQ. The reason "From " at the beginning of a line is escaped to ">From " is that the old mbox style uses "From " as a delimiter between messages stored in a flat file. (note that "From " is different from the "From:" header; it is used to indicate the envelope sender). Probably some mail transport is escaping the From line and adding its own From line, but this should be outside the scope of your PGP signature. The headers of your document shouldn't be signed, because they *will* get changed during transport. In any case, to remove this, there's a few places to look: your MTA (i.e. exim), and any other mail retrieval/processing tools you're using (i.e. getmail, fetchmail, maildrop, procmail). From your description, it sounds like it's probably fetchmail or your local MTA. If the problem is that you're using the "clearsign" method and you have sentences in your text that begin with "From ", you should look into an --escape-from-lines option with your pgp client. (That's what it's called with gpg). To properly diagnose the problem you're having with pgp, we'll need more info: what are you using, what are you doing, what isn't working, etc. Search the archives for a discussion about this from about 2 weeks back. good times, -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. echo Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'
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