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

[Travis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duncan" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Multiple server support even working?


> Travis <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 
> 10
> Apr 2008 12:48:18 -0700:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "K. Haley" <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden> Sent: Thursday,
>> 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.

Yes I am using Windows Mail on my Dell Vista box.  I use Pan for 
newsgroups.  Every once in awhile I get a message from this list with 
the text (.att) and signature (.asc) as an attachment.  I use my EeePC 
w/WXP to receive messages from a LUG (GSLUG) and many of them are PGP 
signed but not as an attachment.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington