- From: Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:17:56 +0900
- To: Jim Melton <jim.melton@acm.org>
- Cc: Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>, Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, public-qt-comments@w3.org
Jim, I'm not sure if you're saying you can't open just the attachment, or you can't open the original message. If you mean just the attachment, it seems like there's not much point in trying to open it -- it's a PGP signature and doesn't contain any kind of human-readable message. As far as the problems you mail app has opening it, I'm not sure what the cause could be. As far as I know, the mailer I used for sending it, Mutt 1.4i, is encoding it in a standards-compliant way that other PGP-enabled mail apps should be able to read and process correctly. And I have my Mutt set up to sign all messages by default. If I want to send an unsigned message, I need to remember to turn it off, as I'm doing for this message. I do that for other lists, because some mailing lists are set up to just strip out attachments anyway. I just forgot to do it when I sent my first message). --Mike Jim Melton <jim.melton@acm.org> writes: > Gentlepeople, > > I might be the last person on the planet who doesn't know how to deal with > this message, but I don't know... > > Fairly recently, I started getting messages from Norm Walsh with these > ".ems" attachments, but Norm's open when I click on the attachment (giving > me a PGP warning box that I can just close). > > However, this particular message (from Michael Smith) contains a ".ems" > attachment that I cannot open at all. When I click on the attachment, I > get a dialog box that says "The message/data contains a detached > signature"; when I click "OK", the dialog box goes away, but the message's > attachment doesn't open. Thus, I am completely unable to read the message. > > If I'm doing something stupid, or failing to do something obvious, I > apologize for this query (and would appreciate guidance!). If it's not > just me, may I request that messages to the public QT comments list not be > hidden from WG members no better educated than I? > > Sorry! > Jim
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