Brad Huntting writes:
For all of you out there who are using MIME headers: There is now an official mime type for PGP (and an RFC to accompany it). Please dont post messages with type "text/x-pgp" or other rot anymore.
Where? Which RFC? I just checked the IANA media-types directory (at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types), and there was no PGP type listed. I also searched through recent RFC titles, and found nothing appropriate. There is of course a draft by Nat Borenstein et al, but it is not an official RFC yet. Therefore, it is not valid MIME. Last I heard, it was taking a fairly low priority. The draft doesn't address the fact that a clearsigned message is readable text, and therefore should be text/pgp rather than application/pgp. He is planning to fix this. My premail software generates the application/x-pgp type, which _is_ valid MIME. So is text/x-pgp, which I don't support yet because premail 0.30 doesn't do clearsigning (hopefully, the next release will). I am eager to switch to the official MIME type as soon as it is out. If anyone knows better, please let me know. Raph