Re: [Evolution-hackers] S/MIME Problem

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Ok, no need for the bug.  I put in a trivial patch which I think will do what its supposed to do.

But i'm not sure, and i haven't tested it, so please let us know if there are issues with it.

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:39 +0800, Not Zed wrote:

Could you please file a bug on bugzilla.ximian.com to track this issue, and let me know the number?

I think we can do this, i think.  The certdb stuff in nss is a bit weird though so i'm not 100% I can get it to work (otherwise it should be trivial).

Thanks,
Michael

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:28 +0100, Ricardo Costa wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 13:55 +0300, Enver ALTIN wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 10:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > Currently you have to import their public key separately.
> > Are you saying it should automatically and with no user input, always
> > import keys on any messages you receive?

Sorry responding in the wrong thread (not the answer to your message)
but I lost it. Yes.  When you do the verification if the signature is
valid, if it is valid you shuld check if the certificate exists in your
smime keystore and if not add it ... whitout any user input. The
certificate will only be used to send encrypted messages to the source.
You already trust it (or int the CA that emited it or else the signature
check will fail) and it will only be used to send encrypted mail to the
owner ... so theres is no reason for ask user input.

> 
> Not necessarily. Adding:
> 
> 	keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
> 
> to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf will do it.

I believe this only works for gpg keys. Whit certificates you do not
know the location of the public key (it varies with the CA used to
generate the certificate).

Ricardo Costa

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Novell, Inc.