[imp] Re: IMP problem

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu>:

| 1) Document that IMP will fail when given bad MIME messages

Technically speaking, this is not a bad MIME message.  It's just a badly 
formed MIME message for the sake of PGP encrypted messages.  It's malformed 
because it gives the MUA no information linking the two parts 
('multipart/mixed' parts are completely independent of each other by RFC 
rule).

| 2) Try to make IMP fail somehow more gracefully when given bad MIME
| messages.

Once again - IMP rendered the message just fine; it's just that it was 
processing the signature with no data and didn't know the PGP signature 
went with the data.

This may be the problem, by the way (I'm not sure why it would defang a 
multipart/encrypted message though):

| X-Security: MIME headers sanitized on pcgxmt1
|         See http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~help/e-mail/security.html
|         for details. $Revision: 1.129 $Date: 2001-04-14 20:20:43-07
| X-Security: The postmaster has not enabled quarantine of poisoned
| messages.
| Content-type: multipart/mixed;
| boundary=------------070206070203070402070702

Because I sincerely hope the new Mozilla...

| User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0)
|  Gecko/20020530

...does not send out bad PGP messages.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder