adding text to detached signature files

MFPA expires2011 at ymail.com
Fri Oct 14 01:53:12 CEST 2011


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Hi


On Friday 14 October 2011 at 12:08:12 AM, in
<mid:201110140108.18571.mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de>, Hauke Laging
wrote:

> Probably most of you have experienced the "What strange
> attachment have you sent to me in your email? I can't
> open that..." effect. In order to minimize that I think
> of adding some text to the file so that

> ################################################
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16
> (GNU/Linux)

> [...] -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> ################################################

> becomes

> ################################################ This
> is a signature file. It allows you to verify that...

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16
> (GNU/Linux)

> [...] -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> ################################################


The non-OpenPGP-aware recipient still couldn't open it so would miss
your explanatory text.

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MFPA                    mailto:expires2011 at ymail.com

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