On 20/09/2021 17:57, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 20/9/21 14:24, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 20/09/2021 12:07, Tim via users wrote:
>> On Mon, 2021-09-20 at 09:45 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> Just one other question on this front, I'm seeing in all emails from
>>> this address list, and only from this address list, a lot of data at
>>> the bottom of the emails that looks like some sort of binary data, or
>>> maybe a digital signature or public encryption key. Is address list
>>> encrypting emails, I've only noticed this since going to V94 which
>>> has support for end-to-end encryption of mails via Openpgp or S/Mime
>> I've not seen any encrypted messages on here, and I can't see how that
>> would work, but...
>
> It wouldn't work very well at all. One needs to have the public key of intended
recipients.
> So, unless the sender had the public keys and address of everyone on this list.....
>
>> I notice that the mailing list's footer (the unsubscribe and list info,
>> etc), is added as another section to the message (rather than just
>> tacking more text onto the author's writing). And in the handful of
>> messages I've looked at it, it's been base64 encoded rather than plain
>> text.
>> Often, but not always, the entire message has been base64 encoded.
>
> I'm pretty sure it is the mailing list software doing that. As long as I
don't include any
> special characters or "foreign" words my messages go out as 7-bit Plain
Text.
>
> I don't know/understand why that is needed.
>
>
> Check to see if my message end up being base64
At the bottom of the source for this mail it mentions that the mail is using the utf-8
character set and content-transfer-encoding of base64.
Which isn't how it was sent. :-(
It was sent....
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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Nothing to see here.