Messages (was Re: [CS-FSLUG] QOTW: TV Classics)

[David McGlone]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:46 am, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:01, Jonathan Rupp wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> > | It happens to me in both sylpheed-claws and Evolution.
> > |
> > | The attachment is always called ATT######.txt where # is some number
> > | between 0 and 9. Below is the actual contents of the body of the
> > | message. Looks like it happens between you and the list software now
> > | that I'm actually looking at it (since the list footer shows up in the
> > | body).
> > |
> > | JSR/
> >
> > I just looked at the headers again, and it appears that Tim is sending
> > it PGP/MIME, with a content type of multipart/signed and a text/plain
> > (the message), and application/pgp-signature (the signature) section.
> > When the list server processes it, it wraps that multipart/signed block
> > into a multipart/mixed block, then adds a text/plain block on the end
> > (inside the multipart/mixed block).  So, maybe it's the multipart/signed
> > that's causing it to appear as an attachment, or the nested multipart
> > MIME blocks.
>
> Anyone else follow that? :-) Thanks Jonathan. So is there a config on my
> end that needs to be done or is there a config on the mailing list that
> needs to occur or is it elsewhere. Seems like it's the mailing list that
> is causing the problem to me, but I'm a bit partial. :-)
>
> If I understand it correctly, dropping the footer addition in the
> mailing list would solve the problem (though not necessarily a desirable
> solution). I say that more to check my understanding then to suggest a
> solution.

here's what it looks like in Kmail

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