Not sure if I'd known this before, but Eudora's pretty quoting visual style breaks PGP signatures. Apparently it permanently alters your mail when it comes in, to apply that style; I'd noticed it messes up copying (the quote characters are dropped so you can't tell what's actually copied) and figured that was the problem GPGshell had checking signatures. Only now did I find this is really a permanent alteration: even if you follow the WinPT FAQ directions above to turn off the pretty quoting, all your old mail (including, presumably, the mail you got that made you look for the solution to this problem) is still in the broken converted format.
I should try The Bat! again.
Addendum: now mail I'm getting in Eudora has the blocky thing again, and the signatures fail. So it won't work from now on, I guess. Definitely should look into The Bat!.
Comments
comment
I first noticed right after I’d paid for Eudora that it would (in tiny ways that most people would find perfectly acceptable) screw with my email. For instance, it changed the name of an attachment from foo.html to foo.htm.
I found that utterly unacceptable. Mind you, I loathe and despise the way TheBat! handles threading, but I grit my teeth and bear it because at least it gives me the damn email verbatim from the server.
TheBat! also saves email without screwing with it. I discovered that somehow I’d directed Eudora to insert HTML into my mbox files (or more accurately, I’d failed to direct Eudora not to insert HTML into my mbox files), and I had to either re-install Eudora or clean up the mail files myself. In the end I did the latter, but I was seriously unhappy with the mess Eudora had left behind.
comment
Bloody Eudora (excuse my French) but geebus, is there anything about email that it doesn’t break?
Pretty much every second issue I get in the Roundup bug tracker to do with email has to do with some broken part of Eudora. Stuff like quoted-printable. It just can’t handle quoted-printable correctly. Or UTF-8.
Of course, every other bug reported to do with email is because of some Outlook stupidity. Sigh.