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Michael Wenger lists at t-link.de
Fri Dec 17 13:54:38 CET 2004


Hi Werner!

Werner Koch schrieb am 17.12.2004 12:41 :
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:21:53 +0100, Michael Wenger said:
> 
>>The signature of this mail has been verified successfully.
>>I haven't changed anything in my configuration since yesterday.
>>Very strange...
> 
> That depends on whether trailing spaces are in the message or not.
> Sometimes I hit the space key at the end of a line or due to cut+paste
> spaces are added.  That is an Enigmail issue.  In general MUAs should
> protect important trailing spaces using QP encoding (e.g. for the 
> signature delimiter "-- ") so that they are not relevant for OpenPGP
> or PGP/MIME.  I will check whether my MUA (Gnus) does it right.

Thanks a lot for this explanation. I hope, the Enigmail-Developers will 
resolve this issue. Maybe, I should upgrade to the latest 
Enigmail-version. But in order to do so, I will have to upgrade 
Thunderbird and many many extensions...

Btw: This mail has not been verified correctly, again ;-)

Michael
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