Re: how do I by-pass the signature check?

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 25.06.04 11:32 schrieb(en) Pawel Salek:
> > be verified due to a missing key.  I care not whether a signature can
> > be verified---I simply wish the freedom to scan and delete messages

Hey, that's **exactly** what signatures are for...

> Do you want to completely switch off signature tests or just to be
> informed in a less "in-your-face" fashion?  Possibly having only a
> "unknown-signature" icon would be sufficient, what do you think?

IMHO, we should not remove the automatic signature check, but just  
suppress the dialog. We then had to implement a way to manually verify a  
signature (or decrypt a message) otherwise, which would be a lot more  
annoying for users who use the crypto features.

One option would be an additional button in the prefs dialog (under  
Display->Status messages?) to just disable this dialog. Other broken  
signatures pop up either a standard warning or a standard error dialog, so  
this is roughly the same place. The drawback is that the prefs dialog is  
already crowded.

The other way would be looking at the pref setting for warnings, and hide  
the dialog if it's not set to "show dialog". However, this is not really  
obvious to the user...

Opinions?

Cheers, Albrecht.


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