On 06/09/06 02.14, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
[snip]
> Why, just today I sent an email to my priest who it turns out is still
> using Outlook Express 6.0. I sent in my usual format; UTF-8 with a
> PGP/MIME detached signature. He complained that he couldn't view
> either of my attachments (the only attachment was the signature;
> Outlook treated the main body of the email as an attachment because it
> didn't understand UTF-8).
If your priest (or someone else using that god-forsaken excuse for a
mailreader) is up for it, I would suggest an experiment.
Try sending the same mail (or one just like it), but with an attached
file - it doesn't need to have any specific content (I've done it with
a file containing just a newline).
In my experience OE does a lot better with PGP/MIME if there is at
least one "real" attachment.
Note that I have not done specific testing for UTF-8, but in my
experience OE behaves rather a lot better, if it gets that little
attachment.
/dossen
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The fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of
the rainbow, and will continue to be there for ever provided, naturally,
that you don't go and look. This is known as Finance.
-- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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