OpenPGP parts and plain text in the same email

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 18 August 2011, Alex (via GPGTools) wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On 18.08.2011, at 20:39, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > why should it support something  strange like a
> > multipart/alternative message with a text/plain part and  a
> > PGP/MIME part.
> 
> isn't this what the message "This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message
> (RFC 2440 and 3156)" is about? If this text is shown by an
> incompatible client it could be replaced by the original text.

Maybe. Maybe not. It depends on where this message occurs. If it occurs 
in the body of the multipart/* message part before the first message 
part boundary then it is probably only shown by mail clients which do 
not support MIME at all.


Regards,
Ingo
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