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Re: [openpgp] Encrypting / Signing the mail subject?

Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> Sat, 28 March 2015 17:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Encrypting / Signing the mail subject?
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On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 15:19 +0100, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> And, yes, I missed RFC 6648 which deprecates X-something headers -
> maybe a "Comments:" header might be used instead of it?
Just don't use a generic term like comments for anything which would be
really machine-readed.
That always causes troubles sooner or later.



Cheers,
Chris.

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