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Subject: Incompatibilities between VM, TM, and PGP
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From: Markus Gutschke <gutschk@uni-muenster.de>
Date: 27 Feb 1997 11:30:14 +0100
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Hi,

I noticed an incompatibility between VM, TM, and PGP and I do not
really know, who is wrong. I currently suspect TM, but that is just a
wild guess.

In one of my messages, I included an entire old e-mail message in
message/rfc822 format. I also told TM, to sign my new
message. Usually, all of this works just fine, but in this very case
it resulted in a `bad signature'. After some experimentation with
different messages, I traced the problem to the fact that VM escapes
all lines, that start with 'From '. Only, the escaping is done *after*
the signature has been computed. Of course, this breaks the checksum
and the signature becomes invalid. Manually removing the '>' escape
character yields a good signature. Unfortunately, I cannot just remove
the escape character from the INBOX, because VM will then assume that
the included message is actually the header of a new message. So, a
proper solution (or work-around) would escape all lines before
computing the PGP signature.



Markus


P.S.: How do I configure VM and Gnus to put my ~/.signature into a
      seperate MIME block (text/plain)? Can I configure TM to
      automatically PGP sign all of my messages?

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Markus Gutschke          Internet:       gutschk@math.uni-muenster.de
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