Hello,

Thanks for testing this clarifying things about PGP/MIME and I apologize 
for wasting your time with it. It looks like a SPAM filtering service I 
use is re-writing some parts of some plain text messages with some 
special/alternate encoding characters (not sure what it really is). 
Anyway, if I manually export/import a message from gmane (bypassing my 
e-mail SPAM filter), thunderbird/enigmail is not having problems 
verifying signatures. I guess I never realized this before because all 
other signed messages I normally receive are encrypted and the SPAM 
filter does not mess with non plain text data.



Andy Schroder

On 06/10/2015 03:43 PM, Peter Todd wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 03:36:42PM -0400, Andy Schroder wrote:
>> It's possible that the enigmail extension is not working right, but
>> I was under the impression that it is just feeding data to gpg and
>> then receiving the response back. It's possible that your e-mail you
>> just checked was not sent through mailman since I also replied
>> directly to you explicitly (in which case the message has not been
>> modified) and you probably have the setting in the mailing list set
>> to not send duplicate messages if you are an explicit TO. I just
>> deleted all explicit TOs for this message, so everyone should be
>> receiving it through the mailing list and not directly. Is the
>> signature still valid for you now? I think enigmail can handle
> It has perfectly valid signatures, as do your earlier messages to the
> list.
>
>> messages with some signed and unsigned content, and maybe PGP/MIME
>> inherently does not support this and a mailing list re-writing parts
>> of messages is an expected action? If this message re-writing is an
>> expected action and I'm correct that PGP/MIME does not support
>> partially signed content, then maybe it is just a recommendation for
>> this mailing list to not use PGP/MIME for messages sent to the list?
> PGP/MIME definitely does support partially signed content.
>