gpg 1.0.6 troubles with whitespace-only Comment header

Ingo Klöcker ingo.kloecker@epost.de
Sat Nov 24 00:01:01 2001


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On Friday 23 November 2001 23:03, Nick Andriash wrote:
> Hello Ingo Klöcker,
>
> On Friday, November 23 2001 at 11:51 AM PDT, you wrote:
> > Create a filter which matches messages which are sent by people who
> > have such silly Comment headers.
>
> What about those Users who simply don't want a Comment line? What is
> the procedure for deleting the line altogether, because it hardly
> seems their fault if they simply leave it blank. Nothing silly about
> it.

Hmm, gpg has the option --no-comment which does what those people might 
want. And neither PGP 2 nor PGP 6 adds a Comment header if there is no 
Comment defined in the configuration file. So those people should 
simply remove the empty Comment entry from their configuration files.

Regards,
Ingo
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