----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:57 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Multiple server support even working?
> Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, > 10 > Apr 2008 12:48:18 -0700: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "K. Haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Thursday, >> April 10, 2008 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Multiple server >> support >> even working? >> >> >>> _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing >>> list >>> Pan-users@nongnu.org >>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users >>> >>> >> >> Why do you send the text of your message as an attachment? > > It was shown here (using pan and gmane) as a multipart/mixed MIME > message > with the original text content GPG signed and included as the first > MIME > part. Below that was the second MIME part, the "Pan-users mailing > list" > footer added by the mailing list software. > > I suspect the original was sent as a simple single-part MIME message, > complete with GPG-signature. The mailing list software would have > then > added the mailing list footer as a second MIME part, converting the > message as a whole into a multipart/mixed message in ordered to add > the > second part. > > Since they /are/ text, pan displays both parts directly, altho it > separates the gpg/pgp-signature into its own little attachment. When > I > have pan save both text and attachments, it creates only one > attachment, > the signature, with the entire thing including the sig in the article > file. It's viewing it (in a text editor) that I was able to see the > MIME > structure I described above. > > I see you are using some sort of MS thing to reply and presumably to > view. No surprise there that it had the body as an attachment. > Actually, that does make a bit of sense, as it would be easier that > way > to pass the entire signed part to gpg/pgp/whatever for signature > verification, since it obviously doesn't handle that built-in. > > Presumably, if you were using say thunderbird, with the enigmail > extension, to view the post, it would verify the signature. I know > kmail > (my mail client) handles such things, but of course, as I said I'm > using > gmane and pan, as I said, to view this list as a newsgroup. Yes I am using Windows Mail on my Dell Vista box. I use Pan for newsgroups. Every once in awhile I get a message from this list with the text (.att) and signature (.asc) as an attachment. I use my EeePC w/WXP to receive messages from a LUG (GSLUG) and many of them are PGP signed but not as an attachment. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
