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Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Sat, 03 May 2025 19:46 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to Andrew Gallagher <andrewg=40andrewg.com@dmarc.ietf.org> message dated "Sat, 03 May 2025 11:54:46 +0100."
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Andrew Gallagher <andrewg=40andrewg.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
    > Instead of including the signature as an attachment, we propose that
    > the signature is contained within a novel MIME header in the top-level
    > MIME part. The principal advantage of this is that naive MUAs should
    > silently ignore unknown MIME-part headers, which addresses the “unknown
    > attachment” UX problem when using traditional PGP/MIME.

okay, I like the idea of fixing the UX problem.
I'm not sure how popular the solution will be, I'm totally willing to try.

Let's adopt this if we can.

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