Formatted vs. plain text mail (was: Call for testing the new dist-upgrade process)

[Jan Claeys]

Op wo, 15-03-2006 te 15:54 +0000, schreef Scott James Remnant:
> This mail is also being sent as "attachments", correctly using the
> PGP/MIME standard to attach a digital signature and relate it to the
> message part.
> 
> MIME is not that complicated, there are hundreds of conforming
> implementations of it. 

And a 100% conforming MIME implementation that doesn't know
multipart/signed (which is only one of many extensions to MIME) would
show your mail as empty with an unknown attachment, and force the
recipient to view the source...  ;-)


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Jan Claeys