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[Olaf Menkens <address@concealed>]

Am 27.09.2012 04:00, schrieb Steve Shipway:
> I've applied your patch for mail.pm to our system (6.1.11), and it works!   
> Many thanks for this, it would have taken me a very long time to locate.  
> Hopefully the 6.2 branch will have this fixed, once it becomes stable enough.
Fine.
> I still have problems getting list signing to produce a signature that works 
> with Outlook without using --nodetach in the openssl flags, though.

Once again: As far as I understand the idea of digital signatures (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature), it doesn't make sense 
to get sympa (or a sympa managed list) sign mails by itself. From the 
wikipedia article:
    "A valid digital signature gives a recipient reason to believe that 
the message was created by a known sender, and that it was not altered 
in transit. "

If a list signs mails itself, this signature is IMHO worthless. The 
sender of the mail should sign the mail, not the list! This is also 
documented in sympa: http://www.sympa.org/manual/x509.

Olaf Menkens.