Re: [Evolution] Reading GPG-encrypted mail

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:55 +0100, Paul Leyland wrote:
> Apologies if this has already been answered but I can't find anything
> about it in the archives.  Indeed, I can't find *anything* in the
> archives.  The search page at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/
> never ever returns anything to me no matter what search term I enter
> into the box, even something I'd expect to produce lots of hits such as
> evo*

AFAIK the archive is broken. Use Gmane
http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.comp.gnome.evolution.general

> Anyway, whinging aside, can anyone explain to me how to read
> GPG-encrypted mail with Evo 2.2.2 running under Gnome 2.0 on UltraSparc
> Solaris 5.9.
> 
> TFM claims it should just work:
> 
> " When you view the message, Evolution prompts you for your PGP
> password. Enter it, and the unencrypted message is displayed. "
> 
> Not for me it doesn't.
> 
> Ok, I can save the message to a file and decrypt it from the command
> line, but that is *sooo* 1990's.
> 
> Anyone with suggestions as to how to add the decryption functionality?
> I guess I need to type in some MIME type mumbo jumbo, but what and
> where?

Is the message PGP/MIME encoded? If not, Evo won't be able to read it
directly. This happens with some messages encoded with other mailers.
Save and decrypt, or use Thunderbird :-)

poc