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Re: gpg error



On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:27:08PM -0400, Sander Smeenk wrote:

> Just something that I noticed. Are those ^M's really Control-M
> characters, or are they a ^ character followed by a M character?

Hmmm... I just noticed those.  I saved a text file containing my PGP
signature from within my sent folder, and then compared it with the
same signature that came back to me (saved from the web in Mozilla,
which thought it was a binary executable).  The original one from mutt
was clean in vim, and the one I saved from the server had the ^M
characters (though I didn't see a DOS identification or anything).
This is evidently happening in the First Class server since it appears
in all of the PGP signatures I have looked at in Mutt (except messages
signed by me residing in sent).

There are two questions:  

1) where along the path is my mail getting mangled.  The DOS-line-end
   characters are not from the POP3 server, but the attachment
   mangling seems to be there.

2) what can I do to work around these obstacles?  I'm using mbox
   format, so I'm not sure how to save a message and then verify it by
   hand.  I guess that's my next move.  Also, I'll see if upgrading to
   the latest Mutt and/or GPG might help.

Has anyone tried to verify a signed message from me?

> If I were you i'd take my mail elsewhere :)

Indeed!  Does anyone know of good third-party mail hosting companies?

Bryan


[sorry for the direct reply. I'll pay more attention next time.]



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Bryan Bibb
http://whirlwind.furman.edu/pubkey.asc

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