Evolution and GPG signing?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Mar 24 18:09:01 UTC 2010


Tim:
>> We've seen plenty of plain text message parts being transcoded in
>> transit by some allegedly "helpful" mail server (turning quoted
>> printable into 8-bit, etc.).  I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised
>> at a mail server doing the same sort of thing to text/html content.

Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Quite, but the OP says it all works properly if he sticks to TB. Even
> allowing for the difference between inline PGP and PGP/MIME, it would
> seem particularly perverse of the intermediate server to mess with one
> and not the other. But I guess stranger things have happened ...

But one client might be using a different content encoding scheme, by
default.  The original poster can easily test this by writing a message
in each, then looking at the raw message kept in their sent mail folder,
before any external mail server has a chance to alter it.

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