[wellylug] Weird problem where emails are split into attachme nts

[Peter Jones]

Jethro Carr wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> --
> Jethro Carr
> 
> www.jethrocarr.com
> www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php

And it arrived looking just like a regular plain textpost.

Actually I do have PGP desktop 9 on this PC but it maynot be set up right
for email. Round tuits and so on.
Peter