GNU bug report logs - #14232
24.3; PGP signatures in base64 encoded mail are incompatible with some MUAs.

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Mikhail Kryshen <mikhail <at> kryshen.net>

Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mikhail Kryshen <mikhail <at> kryshen.net>
Cc: 14232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bugs <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#14232: 24.3; PGP signatures in base64 encoded mail are incompatible with some MUAs.
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:30:04 -0400

reassign 14232 gnus,emacs
thanks

>>>>> "Mikhail" == Mikhail Kryshen <mikhail <at> kryshen.net> writes:
> I use compose-mail and mml-secure-message-sign to send signed email.
> For messages that contain cyrillic characters Emacs by default uses
> utf-8 charset and base64 encoding.  For such messages some MUAs (Mutt,
> Notmuch) report good signature and some (Sylpheed, Evolution) show bad
> signature for the same message.

[...]
> So it seems to be correct and better for compatibility with other email
> clients to terminate the last line of base64 encoded data with <CR><LF>.

I forwarded this to the Gnus guys who know more about these issues.


        Stefan
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