Corrupt pgp-signed messages

[Julian Field]

At 16:34 15/03/2003, you wrote:
>Quoting Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:
>
> > I would like to see the difference in the MIME structure between what
> > MailMan does and what MailScanner does. I just add the signature on to the
> > end of the first in-line text+html segments of the message, which will be
> > what you see. So the signature should be put in place after the signature,
> > and therefore hopefully outside the signed portion of the message.
>
>Would this involve just forwarding the sample message to you? How can I
>view the
>mime structure of a message? I'm sorry, but my technical knowledge of this is
>pretty spare. However, your explanation above makes sense.

If you can find one (possibly using the "Archive Mail" feature), copy the
raw queue files for a couple of sample messages generated by MailMan. 1
without the pgp sig and 1 with the pgp sig would be ideal.

>What I'm seeing is that MailScanner is attaching its signature at the end
>of the
>first in-line text segment of the message (exactly as you desribed above). I
>think the problem is that that is the signed part of the message. If I'm
>understanding this correctly, a signed message has (at least) two mime parts;
>the message, and the pgp signature. It looks like MailMan might add a third
>part, the text signature for the mailing list.

The snag with that is getting all email programs to actually display the
3rd bit (i.e. the signature). I would be interested to see how MailMan gets
around the problem.


> > The other alternative is by using the Subject: line modification feature
> > (e.g. add "{Scanned}" on the end of the subject line).
>
>I'm not too worried about this; it isn't mission critical and, as I said,
>I know
>the messages are being scanned because of the headers being added. I just
>thought the signature was cool.
>
>Thanks for your help, and a *great* product,

Thanks!

>  and if I can provide any additional
>information or troubleshoot it further, please let me know.
>
>Rick
>
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