[H-GEN] gmail won't let me talk to myself.

[David Seikel]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:52:01 +1000 "De Crow" <crowaust at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been noticing this a fair bit, why is it that some emails come
> through with the body of the email in an attachemnt? Most if not all
> of David's emails do this. 

That is likely to be the result of yesterdays update of my email
client.  Unless it is a separate issue and gmail is to blame.  Did this
start happening today or yesterday?

I tried to configure the new version of sylpheed-claws to send my
emails in the same format that the old sylpheed-claws used to.  Last
year, I was using a sylpheed-claws that allowed me to gpg sign my
emails.  I started using PGP mime, as that was the default.  I got
complaints, did some research, and found out that those that know more
than me where using PGP inline, so I switched.

At the beginning of this year I upgraded my OS.  The sylpheed-claws
that came with the new OS had gpg support disabled for some reason or
other.  I decided to just let it be for now, and put "compile my own
sylpheed-claws" way down on my TODO list.

Last weekend, at the HUMBUG AGM, I became the HUMBUG secretary.  One of
my jobs is to handle HUMBUG correspondence.  This prompted me to
elevate that TODO item to top priority.  So yesterday I compiled a new
sylpheed-claws from the latest stable release.  I was unable to
convince it to send signed email in the same format I was sending last
year.  When this version signs a message, it ignores the users
preferred transfer encoding and makes up it's own mind.

This may result in some email clients thinking that the body is an
attachment.

I will let it ride for a bit, collecting complaints, then I will look
into it.  Either finding out what the developers are upto, or checking
the specs and fixing the source code.
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