Is this a bug in mutt or a malformed email?

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 06/29/04

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    A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in
    multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text.

    Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happily
    displays the plain text part and ignores the HTML.

    However, when he quotes one of my PGP-inline-signed posts, and doesn't
    delete the "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----" line, mutt acts as if
    the plain text part doesn't exist and gives me the "text/html is
    unsupported (use 'v'......)" message.

    If I edit the received email and add a space at the beginning of
    "-----BEGIN PGP....", or change one character of that line, mutt is
    then happy and displays the plain text part without problems.

    I am not au fait with the fine details of email formatting, so I'm not
    sure if this is a bug in mutt's handling of a correctly-formed
    message, or a consequence of the message being incorrectly formed (the
    poster is using M$ outhouse). The BTS doesn't seem to contain any bugs
    against mutt that would be relevant.

    I'm attaching a copy of an email that causes mutt to misbehave, and I
    would appreciate it if someone who knows more about email formatting
    than me could have a look at it, so that I can decide whether or not I
    should file a bug against mutt. I've munged the guy's email address
    but the rest is strictly as received. 

    -- 
Pigeon
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