From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 17:38:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4CB16A4CE; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92ABF43F93; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:38:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5AECC239A0B; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:38:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:38:31 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: SWIT Message-ID: <20031120013831.GT98272@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <20031120005218.GA76590@xor.obsecurity.org> <002201c3af03$38ccbb90$0100000a@Biggie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002201c3af03$38ccbb90$0100000a@Biggie> Organization: Zer0 X-Purpose: For great justice! Mail-Copies-To: poster X-PGP-Fingerprint: D161 E4EA 4BFA 2427 F3F9 5B1F 2015 31D5 845D FEDD X-PGP-Key: http://zer0.org/~gsutter/gsutter.pgp X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: chat@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO going after BSD??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:38:35 -0000 On 2003-11-19 20:11 -0500, SWIT wrote: > is this a unix thing or what. > many times i get messages from the list were the message is an attachment > and not in the email. > was curious as to why. The messages you see as attachments are messages that have been PGP signed to prove their authenticity. The problem is with Outlook Express. Not only does it fail to support PGP/MIME (many programs don't support PGP/MIME and still can display PGP signed email correctly), but it is actually broken. Outlook Express ignores the following MIME headers in the message: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline These headers show that the part is not an attachment but should be displayed inline, and that it contains pure text that doesn't need a special handler to be displayed. Why Outlook Express fails to recognize this, and why Microsoft fails to issue a patch to fix the problem, is unknown. [ Response paraphrased from: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2003-September/020155.html ] Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Fighting ignorance since 1975! mailto:gsutter@zer0.org (It's taking longer than I thought.) http://zer0.org/~gsutter/