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

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 26.06.04 11:27 schrieb(en) Russell L. Harris:
> And yes, this IS a a very reasonable temporary solution.

That's great... :-)  I'll think about a more general solution.

> some other detail before re-sending the message.  By "sending again", I  
> mean specifically to a copy to the DRAFT box a message from the SENT  
> box, while leaving the original message in the SENT box.  With Balsa, I  
> am able to TRANSFER a message from the SENT box to the DRAFT box and  
> then modify and re-send it, but then I have lost the record of the  
> original message.  Of course, I can copy to myself each message I send,  
> but I prefer to retain in the SENT box a copy of everything I have sent.

Implementing it in the context (or the mailbox?) menu sounds like a good  
idea to me. However, you *can* actually _copy_ a message (as with other  
gnome apps) by dragging it to the destination mailbox with the Crtl key  
pressed (note the "+" in the dnd icon). I checked that it works for  
copying from Sent to Draft. You can then double-click the message, and it  
opens in the composer window, with all old attachments.

I did not check, though, what happens with multipart/signed messages. The  
"old" signature is an attachment, and if you send it again with the old  
signature, and don't sign it again, the recipient will usually get a  
message where the signature doesn't verify properly, i.e. a message which  
looks like one which has been tampered with on it's way through the net.  
So I guess in this case you should always remove the old signature and  
sign the message again.

Hth,

	Albrecht.

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