Verify PGP signed email on the command line

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2020-07-19T03:18:35Z, JACOB EDWARDS WIESE wrote:

> Today I tried using GPG (2.2.21) to verify a pgp signed email
> that I sent to myself from the new ThunderBird 78.0.  GPG said
> it did not recognize the format which seems to be multi-part mime.

> The command I used: gpg.exe --verify PGPtest-0.eml

The MIME must be decoded first but gpg doesn't do that. It is email
client's job to extract the MIME part that was signed and the signature
itself. Those two are sent to "gpg --verify".

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