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>>>>> newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de (R) wrote:

>R> Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl> writes:
>>> --=-=-=
>>> 
>>> Occasionally, I receive a message with a traditional PGP/GnuPG signature,
>>> i.e. not a PGP/Mime signature but the ASCII-armored thing, like the
>>> enclosed message. In te past I used mailcrypt for it, but now I have
>>> switched over to VM-8's code. However this fails.

>R> Clear text signatures should work, I am not sure what going wrong
>R> here ...

>R> Are you sure that vm-pgg is enabled?

>R> Please check the message log and
>R> (featurep 'vm-pgg) => Should be t
>R> (locate-library "pgg") => Should find pgg.el(c) 

This is all OK.

>R> For GNU Emacs pgg.el comes with Gnus.

>>> When there is a Mime-version header in the message VM seems to try to
>>> verify the signature, but without Mime-version header it seems to just
>>> ignore it. Would it be possible to correct this?

>R> Definitely.

I think I got that wrong, because now it ignores the signate if the ARE
Mime headers and does the check when they are absent.

>R> The message you have attached was in flowed format, probably
>R> paragraphs got filled before sending or on their way to my news
>R> server.

>R> After fixing the headers it is working for me.

Actually after trying again (and removing the Mime headers) it checks OK.
Including the original that I thought failed. I can't understand what
happened. I did not upgrade VM in the meantime, I haven't even restarted
Emacs since.

I do have another message that I received from someone else, that fails
with vm-pgg but succeeds with mailcrypt. However it contains non-ASCII
characters without giving proper Mime headers, so that may just be a
problem with the character encoding.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4]
Private email: piet@vanoostrum.org