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Author: Roger Burton West
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] (no subject)
On or about Sat, May 13, 2000 at 05:42:19PM +0300, Vadim Vygonets typed:

>Even if you solve issues of MIME handling, several other issues
>remain:
>
> * What if the message contains only binary MIME parts?


Well, if it's a MIME message, one can attach another MIME part with
just the disclaimer in it. It's invalid, of course, because
there's no way to say to which bits of the message it refers.

>  * What if the message is cryptographically signed?  Should the
>    disclaimer invalidate the signature?  This kind of thing can
>    probably happen of you use PGP/MIME or that signature in the
>    header, whatever it's called.


It certainly _should_, because the message is no longer what the
user signed!

Roger (who thinks that the whole idea is in bad taste)

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