Attachments? Re: Indented multi-line strings (was: "Data blocks" syntax specification draft)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 17:59:07 EDT 2018


On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
> On 2018-05-31 14:42:39 -0700, Paul wrote:
>> I have heard that attachments to messages are not allowed on this list,
>> which makes sense. However I notice that messages from Peter do have an
>> attachment, i.e., a signature.asc file.
>
> No this is isn't an attachment. It's a signature. Your MUA probably
> displays everything it can't handle as an "attachment".

Which, I might point out, is a decent way to handle unknown parts. The
user is shown that there's an extra part, and can view it as an
external file.

ChrisA



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