Per Øyvind Karlsen escribió::
never mind, stupid outlook express at work who denied me to open attachments by default, how stupid..
It's more stupid than that: the message is *no* attachment, is a multipart/signed message with a text/plain part and a application/pgp-signature part.
A compliant mime reader (as oulook express claims to be) which doesn't know anything about openpgp, should take the "multipart", ignore the "signed" and display inline the "text/plain" part, while showing that there's an unknown attachment (the "application/pgp-signature" part). Of course a openpgp enabled reader will make good use of the signature.
<rant>
Outlook Express (not Outlook) is broken and says that the message text is an attachment, and outlook express' users will complain because they cannot see a pefectly rfc compliant message, and there's no way to explain that to them since they are either
[ ] clueless
[ ] ignorants with no desire to learn anything
[ ] morons
[ ] arrogants
[ ] all of the above
and since there's a (justified, due to the shameful security record of microsoft products) paranoia in opening attachments (mind me, only if they're harmless txt attachment, no outlook express user in any of the above category will think twice before opening an exe/doc/xsl/bat/pif/etc.etc. file received by mail).
</rant>
Since you don't fit any of the above categories, and are probably a legal user of Outlook Express (i.e. your windows copy is not an illegal), please complain to Microsoft so that they fix this problem (and clueless users stop complaining they cannot read perfectly formed messages).
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