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[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:53:02 -0800
Condon Thomas A KPWA <tcondon at kpt.nuwc.navy.mil> wrote:

> David A. Bandel <mailto:david at pananix.com> typed thusly on Monday,
> February 10, 2003 12:34 PM:
> 
> > Actually, I modified the header so I'm not using "begin  " anymore. 
> > Take a look.  This message is 1000% RFC compliant, including the
> > automatic PGP signature (which may be what your non-compliant mail
> > software is choking on).
> >
> > Anyway, since only Windoze lusers are complaining, I suggest they
> > make their complaints known to Bill, not me.
> 
> If you could give me the RFC number(s) with which you are in
> compliance and a text file of the actual message as it leaves your
> mail process, I'd be glad to do just that (by way of the IT support
> team).

You receive my actual text as it leaves my system when it arrives at
yours (only addition are mail headers added by sendmail) unless you have
a system that mangles it to Base64 -- which will render the signature
invalid.  (See RFC-3156 for details).

RFCs:

The one RFC most applicable to problems encountered with my messages is:
RFC-3156  MIME Security with OpenPGP

I don't use ASCII-armored because it doesn't conform to RFC-3156, but
old mailers don't conform to RFC-3156, they still use RFC-2015
(obsolete).

Other related RFCs:
1844 Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent Checklist. E. Huizer. August
2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of
2046 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media
2047 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message
2048 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four:
2049 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five:
2110 MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML
3459 Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

Also of interest:
2821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. J. Klensin, Ed.. April 2001.
2822 Internet Message Format. P. Resnick, Ed.. April 2001.
2077 The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail

> 
> I don't count myself as a Windoze luser, even though I'm forced to run
> it here.  I've got four linux systems at home and have four more here
> (which is supposed to be a Windows environment).  However, I really
> have to want to read what you've written in order to open a double
> layer of attachments to read it.  Just give me the ammunition and I'll
> point the gun!  Not at my foot this time.  ;-}>

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
		Nemesis Racing Team motto
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