Are gpg signatures considered attachments?

Chris cpollock at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 25 20:29:13 CET 2005


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On Sunday 25 December 2005 11:54 am, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Chris wrote (2005-12-25 17:22):
> >I know that is probably a lame question, however, I'm on several mailing
> >lists that are bouncing my messages back to me because they are signed.
> > The list owners are telling me this is because they don't allow
> > attachments.
>
> Mutt adds a 'Content-Disposition: inline' to the MIME part containing
> the signature. This seems to work, I don't remember any bouncing
> mails. (Pipermail has a problem with signed attachments though.)
>
>
> Thorsten

Thanks Thorsten. It was pointed out to me that my signatures had been added 
as attachments which was causing the bounces.  When I changed to 'inline' 
the problem went away. Kmail however shows 'Inline OpenPGP (deprecated)' 
not exactly why it shows that, but its the option I'm now using.

Thanks

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Chris
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