Re: Question on how to set attachment rules

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On 07/24/09 16:43, quoth Michael Yount:
> What is the content type of a message with a PGP signature?

As I said below:
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"

> Clearly, for a signature to be valid, the related parts of the message
> cannot be altered, so the "keep" example you cited is applicable to your
> situation.

When you sign with PGP you have the option of signing the whole message or
just the body. Not all mail readers support verifying the whole message and I
would never want to support a signature that depended on preserving all of the
attachments.

Also, the help text confused me because I don't understand the context of what
is meant by "multipart/signed" or if it's relevant to what I'm asking.

Your question is good though. The better way to ask is to say this:

I do not want to support html and that if html is sent, it should be converted
to text. I want to preserve the pgp key if the user sent plain text but if a
conversion occurs then the value of the attached signature is useless. So
basically I think I'm answering my own question. If I want to support html
then I might worry about a pgp signature, but if a conversion happens then why
bother?

I'm still curious what was meant by multipart/signed.

> 
> Michael
> 
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I currently have attachment_rules and attachment_filters settings as:
> 
> configset listname attachment_rules <<ENDAAM
> text/plain | require
> ENDAAM
> 
> configset frambors attachment_filters <<ENDAAL
> text/plain | allow
> /./ | discard
> text/html | format
> text/enriched | format
> ENDAAL
> 
> I would like to support PGP signature attachments so that they are not
> stripped out.
> 
> A typical PGP signature attachment will look like this
> 
> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
> Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc"
> 
> Also, I see this line before the first MIME header.
> This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156)
> 
> Is there something I can do to allow these through?
> 
> Also, in the help configset_attachment_filters verbage, it says something
> about signed messages, but I'm not clear if this is on a different topic.
> 
> [The keep action
> ---------------
> The keep action causes a body part to be passed untouched.  If the body
> part has subparts, those also will remain untouched.  For example,
> to allow a signed message to be posted without alterations, use the
> following rule:
> 
> multipart/signed | keep]
> 
> Does this help me?
> 
> TIA
> 
>>

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