[Linux-disciples] Changing quoted-printable encoding in mutt

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Well, the 'from' wasn't quoted there, and the signature was good.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:37:11AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> Mutt doesn't do that; it's at the MTA stage. (I think. Prove me wrong,
>> though).
> 
> I just thought of a reason why, if mutt doesn't handle this
> encoding, it should: PGP signatures. If I include the word
> 'From' at the beginning of a line, then mutt calls out to
> gnupg and signs the message, and only *then* does the MTA
> encode the 'From', the PGP signature will no longer be
> valid. This suggests that either PGP or mutt ought to fix
> the quoted-printable part of the message. Maybe PGP already
> does. Here's a test:
> 
> From -- this line begins with from. Let's see how mutt/the
> MTA/gnupg handle it.
> 
> Also, mutt has an 'encode_from' option, turned off, by
> default, which controls whether mutt handles this:
> http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html
> 
> " encode_from
> 
> Type: boolean
> Default: no
> 
> When set, mutt will quoted-printable encode messages when
> they contain the string "From " in the beginning of a line.
> Useful to avoid the tampering certain mail delivery and
> transport agents tend to do with messages. "
> 
> It doesn't appear to be customizable, however, such that I
> could use ' ' instead of '>'.
> 
> 
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