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Al Slater wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> V=E1clav Haisman wrote:
>>>> I have noticed that sometimes my PGP signed messages do not arrive
>>>> intact from cygwin-ml.
>>>> Is this a cygwin-ml software problem?
>>> Yes, something in the ML software seems to like re-wrapping lines. It's
>>> breaking my PGP signatures too.
>=20
> Your signature looks good from here

Amusingly ironic :-)

Seems that that particular message lacked any lines long enough to
trigger the re-wrap.

Let me try to force a re-wrap to occur here:
>23456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G12345=
6789H

The specific nature of the problem seems to be that quoted-printable
MIME parts seem to be getting unencoded and then re-encoded by the
sourceware mail system. In doing so, the wrapping policy applied by the
original mailer is destroyed, and sourceware's own is imposed.

Clearly this is a bad thing, since unless the results of the policies
are identical, the validity of any signature is destroyed.

Is there a suitable sourceware administrator watching this thread, or
should I summarize the issue to overseers@ ?

Max.



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