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>> You're right, I do see that, when I look at the message in my sent > >> mail folder in claws-mail with the PGP plugin. But when I look > >> through the Gmail web interface, I see "noname". Go figure? > > > > That doesn't tell us anything because Gmail may very well be broken > re: this. I don't think Gmail supports multipart/encrypted anyway. > > > >> Here is how mail flows for me: > > > > How about looking at the sent-mail folder? IMP will save the exact > copy of the message text it sends to the outbound mail server, so > looking at the copy in the sent-mail folder will show what is being > sent out unadulterated by any other process down the chain. The > message source of the message might be useful to look at. > > > >> Looking at this from another direction, adding the > >> Content-Description field does no harm save for making messages one > >> line longer per attachment. So why NOT put it in by default? Users > >> could still clear it by blanking the attachment description fields... > > > > As mentioned previously, it's a waste of space (60-80 bytes per > e-mail adds up on a server with millions of users). It's also *not* > what Content-Description was created for. From RFC 2045[8]: > > > > The ability to associate some descriptive information with a given > > body is often desirable. For example, it may be useful to mark an > > "image" body as "a picture of the Space Shuttle Endeavor." Such text > > may be placed in the Content-Description header field. This header > > field is always optional. > > > > Here, we don't care about descriptive information for attachments > (while there is a Description field in IMP 4, this field has been > removed in IMP 5 for exactly this reason). Description != filename. > > > > Additionally, adding the Content-Description field is simply masking > the real problem. This is no different than turning up your car > radio when your engine starts making funny sounds. It may fix the > issue temporarily, but doesn't give you any insight into the reason > why it is broken in the first place.
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