Albrecht Dreß e-mails get filtered on the YDL list (was RE: [IMPORTANT] SOUND!!!!)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Prior to a TerraSoft upgrade that occurred sometime between 2004-12-11 and
2004-12-13, all such messages in the archive looked like:
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-December/016963.html
Evidently, whatever "Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72)" is, it
also decodes such messages in that incorrect manner to this day. You
really shouldn't have to deal with this; you didn't cause the problem.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:38:03 +0000, Albrecht Dreß wrote:

> Am 11.01.05 18:52 schrieb(en) Longman, Bill:
>> Albrecht, all the messages I see from you are attachments. Is there a
>> reason
>> for this?
> 
> I always send messages which are signed using GnuPG [1] and sent as a  
> multipart/signed according to RFC 3156 [2]. The ydl list processor  
> (mailman?) tries to add the YDL list info, but it must have a text part  
> for that. So it puts the message into a new multipart/mixed and adds the  
> text part. The resulting structure is:
> 
> multipart/mixed  <- outer list processor container
>    +- multipart/signed <- from my message, see [2]
>    |    +- text/plain  <- what I actually wrote
>    |    +- application/pgp-signature <- GnuPG signature of my message
>    +- text/plain <- YDL list info
> 
> Looks pretty complicated, but all up-to-date MUA's (read: balsa [3], evo,  
> kmail, mutt, Mozilla w/ enigmail [4], ...) should be able to decode it  
> properly.
> 
>> I summarily delete any messages with attachments.
> 
> Why?!? There are better anti-spam rules, if that is your intention ;-)
> 
> Cheers, Albrecht.
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.gnupg.org
> [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3156.txt
> [3] http://balsa.gnome.org
> [4] http://enigmail.mozdev.org