Bug#213478: balsa: Unable to open PGP encrypted e-mails

[Andrew Lau <netsnipe users sourceforge net>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:55:23AM -0700, Scott Robinson wrote:
> Balsa is unable to fully PGP encrypted e-mails. Instead of asking for my
> passphrase to decrypt an e-mail, it shows the encrypted data as an
> attachment and offers to save it to disk.
> 
> However, it can confirm signatures and sign outgoing e-mails.

Dear Scott,

I haven't been able to reproduce your bug at all. Try sending yourself a
GnuPG encrypted email to yourself using Balsa and see if you can open
it. I can. I've also tried sending mail to myself that way using
Evolution and Mutt and Balsa can decipher them all without problem. This
leads me to suspect that either your GnuPG setup or person sending it is
at fault.

Do you have the following:
	
	netsnipe@espresso:~% grep default-key .gnupg/gpg.conf
	default-key ABCD1234

pointing to your secret key-ID?

Check the headers on the messages that are refusing to decrypt. The
User-Agent must be RFC 2015 compliant,
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2015.html>.

Do they have the messages in question have the following headers?

	Mime-Version: 1.0
	Content-Type: multipart/encrypted;
		protocol="application/pgp-encrypted";
		boundary="<random_string>"

Please provide me with some sample emails that you can reproduce your
bug with. Otherwise, there's nothing I can do to help you.

Yours sincerely,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

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