Fedora Users — Re: Auction Management software

On or about 2003-12-24 13:44, Alexander Dalloz whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:

Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Fritz Whittington um 20:27:

On or about 2003-12-24 12:25, Alexander Dalloz whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:

Hi,

would you mind not to email any more with your build-in pgp signing? It
makes me and many others hard to read your postings.
Thank you.

Alexander

Since I don't use Evolution, but Mozilla, I'm really curious as to why you have any difficulty reading his messages. As far as I can see, they are in perfectly plain ASCII text conforming to all applicable RFCs. Here's what I see from the "View Message Source" option of Mozilla:

From - Wed Dec 24 11:33:30 2003

From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Auction Management software
Message-ID: <20031224172959.GB23571@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <pan.2003.12.09.03.52.42.618610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <1072129667.880.7.camel@hermione>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/pgp; x-action=sign; format=text
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="msg.pgp"
In-Reply-To: <1072129667.880.7.camel@hermione>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
Sender: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
Errors-To: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
Precedence: junk
Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:29:59 -0500

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The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:

Give bidwatcher a try. Its eBay specific.

There is also VitaleBay which is a management tool for eBay sellers written in php
http://vitalebay.sourceforge.net

PRINCE
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Of course, when just viewing the message in the usual way I don't normally see *all* the headers, but the message body is perfectly plain to see. It would seem to me that his mail is standards-conforming. If your MUA doesn't display it, I would say that it is defective somehow.

It's still completely OK for you to request him not to do it, but I just wonder what (if anything) is broken. Some (myself included) feel very strongly about signing their email (mine is signed PKS-7).


Content-Type: application/pgp; NAME=msg.pgp; X-ACTION=sign; FORMAT=text

You feel this content-type is ok for plain mail text? I don't.

Alexander

Actually, yes, I do. But my statement was that the mail was standards-conforming. And a MIME-conforming MUA either (1) recognizes the Content-Type and handles it according to whatever rules/conventions/configuration options there are for that type OR (2) does not recognize the type and takes some action like ask the user what to do with it, etc. including the option of just displaying the text. A NON-MIME-conforming MUA would just display the text verbatim. Regardless of whether Evolution claims to be (or actually is) MIME-conforming *or not*, you in this case should see the text (since it's not encoded, compressed, or whatever, just text). It's my contention that if you don't, then your MUA is defective. But hey, we use defective software all the time :-) but we usually try to fix it.

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