On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Justin Fielding wrote:

> P.s it's a pain not signing, I have to manually disable it each time I 
> make a post to this group :(
> 
> Russell McMahon wrote:
> 
> >CC Justin (no mouse actions were consumed in the preparation of this 
> >message).
> >
> >This is the first and only message of Justin's that I can see "normally".
> >
> >Of the replies that I have received offlist, about 50% see Justin's messages 
> >as I do - a blank subject field with he signature and message body in two 
> >separate attachments. These seem to mainly be OE users but that's not 
> >certain (not all have said).
> >
> >Some people are seeing the attachments inside an attachment - enough to 
> >drive the sanest crazy.

I think I know what the problem is. OE disregards a missing MIME type 
declaration in the headers and assumes the message is MIME encoded 
multipart if the first part of the message constains text like:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

which resembles a MIME part header. Justin's setting sent just such lines. 
Thus OE split the message into 'attachments. Actually receivers of this 
message may not be able to read these lines because of that.

-----END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

This would be just another 'helpful' heuristic from the OE makers. Like 
the one with [RE]: (remember that one) ?

Justin: you can cause your mta to strip these lines for this 
destination only. The server operators could too (use grep or whatever)

hope this helps,
Peter
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