This time Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 10:26 AM, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > >>>>>> there is something weired in this mailinglist. All mails from me >>>>>> and >>>>>> from vox gets a warning with invalid signature. someon is changeing >>>>>> the content on the way (and it is not my mailserver). there are >>>>>> changes from '=2D' to a '-'. >>> >>> In some, not so rare, instances, sympa will rewrite messages and >>> insert >>> MIME data instead of regular text data which, of course, screws up gpg >>> sigs. >>> >>> ezmlm-idx, which runs the MandrakeSecure lists, doesn't have this >>> peculiar behaviour. Todd Lyons and I tracked down sympa as the >>> culprit >>> a few months ago, but I'm not sure what the reason for sympa doing it >>> was (it was a particular characteristic of an email). Something >>> like a >>> space behind a triple dash or something. >> >> Ah, >> >> thanks. Nice to know. > > I wish I could remember what triggered it exactly. But that's a basic > sum up. Maybe Todd remembers. > > Anyways, one day sympa really needs to be retired, for things like > this. And I hope that day comes up SOON! Vox, who still hates sympa (and the reason is finally known for those that hadn't heard about sympa's love of mungling signed mails) -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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