Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 23:28, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:15 +0300, Mihai Donțu wrote:
>>
>> Wait. I don't think we're on the same page here. I'm talking about message
>> signing (which does not require the receiving end to have any key - it's the
>> same plain text e-mail with a blob after it) while you refer to actually
>> encrypting the message. Mm? Or am I being extremely slow today? :-)
>
> Only when you assume that Exchange would pass signed messages without
> corrupting them. It really is that broken.

Indeed. In my experience Exchange may
  - corrupt PGP signed email, causing the signature verification to fail,
  - send/forward all email in BASE64, causing it to be dropped by
vger.kernel.org.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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