[wellylug] Weird problem where emails are split into attachments

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Wed Mar 15 15:16:55 NZDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 02:06 +0000, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:29:55PM +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:15 +1300, Peter Jones wrote:
> > > BTW why do messages from some posters (Jethro, for one) come as an
> > > attachment, which in turn contain another attachment, which has to be opened
> > > to read the message? Now THAT'S awkward and makes top posting seem pretty
> > > mild by comparison
> > 
> > because I'm special, and my emails want to be noticed. ;-)
> > seriously, I'm not sure why that is - I'm not aware of anyone else
> > having a problem.
> 
> Because you are GPG signing your messages, and your options cause the
> result to be sent as an attachment :-)
> 
> And because Peter's mail client doesn't "know" about PGP I guess, and it
> just showing the attachments, waiting to see if he wants to click on
> them.

yeah,

that's what I said might be causing the problem.

To confirm the problem, I've sent this email without a signature.


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Jethro Carr

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