How to automatically sign emails

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 ml at charliesangels.biz wrote:

> We do use a Strange Pearl-Script to automatically sign emails. Basically 
> our MTA (Exim) saves every mail to a maildir. Every mail ist then piped 
> to the Script. However, whenever an attachement is included, the 
> complete body of the email is removed.
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i've never seen a perl script that wasn't strange.


> Is there an easy way to sign mails w/o the attachement ? I would like to 
> use something different than the Pearl-Script we use now.
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look into ripmime. <http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/>

it can be used to take apart the different pieces of a MIME message. you 
can then sign just the text and re-attach everything else.

is that what you're trying to do?


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