Debian Bug report logs - #85846
mutt: Mutt converts signed messages to quoted-printable

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: nidd@debian.org

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: mutt: Mutt converts signed messages to quoted-printable

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:13:28 +0300

Package: mutt
Version: 1.3.12-2
Severity: normal

If I want to send 8bit signed pgp message it converts it to 7bit (quoted
printable). This is unnecessary and sometimes harmgul because some mail
clients and especially mailing list archivers don't understand quoted-printable
and can't encode them.

Patch:

--- pgp.c   Sun Nov 19 22:14:10 2000
+++ pgp.c~  Tue Feb 13 18:05:51 2001
@@ -1064,7 +1064,11 @@
   int empty = 1;
   pid_t thepid;

+
+#ifdef 7BIT_PGP_CONVERSION /* I don't know, why mr. Elkins thinks that
+              his comment is true */
   convert_to_7bit (a); /* Signed data _must_ be in 7-bit format. */
+#endif

   mutt_mktemp (sigfile);
   if ((fp = safe_fopen (sigfile, "w")) == NULL)
@@ -1314,8 +1318,10 @@
     return NULL;
   }

+#ifdef 7BIT_PGP_CONVERSION
   if (sign)
     convert_to_7bit (a);
+#endif

   mutt_write_mime_header (a, fptmp);
   fputc ('\n', fptmp);



-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux lambda 2.2.17 #1 Sat Sep 9 12:42:22 EST 2000 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages mutt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.1-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libncurses5    5.0-8          Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libsasl7       1.5.24-5       Authentication abstraction library.
ii  exim           3.16-6         Exim Mailer
	^^^ (Provides virtual package mail-transport-agent)

Message #10 received at 85846-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>

To: 85846-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: mutt: Mutt converts signed messages to quoted-printable

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:34:25 +0100

You patch is badly broken.
Conversion to quoted printable is needed to be sure MTAs will not mangle
the message and make the signature fail.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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