[dev] PGP.. bug? attachments...

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Feb 18 13:19:56 PST 2004


Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Thomas <thomas at mebes.info>:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a problem....
>>
>> if I want to encrypt an e-mail message with PGP and there is a file 
>> attached to
>> it, then the mail is transmitted without the attachment.
>
> That is incorrect.  The attachment is located within the encrypted data
> string.
> The receiving MUA is responsible for decrypting the string and then
> parsing the
> MIME structure stored in the encrypted string.  Therefore you won't see an
> attachment until the message is decrypted and the receiving MUA can handle
> encrypted attachments.

Confirmed that it works as expected.

Jan.

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