[Pan-users] Re: Multiple server support even working?

[Duncan]

Travis <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 10
Apr 2008 12:48:18 -0700:

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> April 10, 2008 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Multiple server support
> even working?
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> Why do you send the text of your message as an attachment?

It was shown here (using pan and gmane) as a multipart/mixed MIME message 
with the original text content GPG signed and included as the first MIME 
part.  Below that was the second MIME part, the "Pan-users mailing list" 
footer added by the mailing list software.

I suspect the original was sent as a simple single-part MIME message, 
complete with GPG-signature.  The mailing list software would have then 
added the mailing list footer as a second MIME part, converting the 
message as a whole into a multipart/mixed message in ordered to add the 
second part.

Since they /are/ text, pan displays both parts directly, altho it 
separates the gpg/pgp-signature into its own little attachment.  When I 
have pan save both text and attachments, it creates only one attachment, 
the signature, with the entire thing including the sig in the article 
file.  It's viewing it (in a text editor) that I was able to see the MIME 
structure I described above.

I see you are using some sort of MS thing to reply and presumably to 
view.  No surprise there that it had the body as an attachment.  
Actually, that does make a bit of sense, as it would be easier that way 
to pass the entire signed part to gpg/pgp/whatever for signature 
verification, since it obviously doesn't handle that built-in.

Presumably, if you were using say thunderbird, with the enigmail 
extension, to view the post, it would verify the signature.  I know kmail 
(my mail client) handles such things, but of course, as I said I'm using 
gmane and pan, as I said, to view this list as a newsgroup.

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