Re: [Evolution] GPG signatures

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 13:26, John Gateley wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 19:19, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 17:53, John Gateley wrote:
> > > I have a GPG signature that works in mutt
> > > but not in Evolution, and it is NOT an
> > > inline signature: it comes in two MIME
> > > parts, one for the body and one for the
> > > signature, just like Evolution does. Are
> > > there any known bugs with Evolution that
> > > would cause this?
> >
> > [...]The problem comes in because
> > write_to_stream() is not guarenteed to write the MIME part out exactly
> > byte-for-byte the way it was in the original message (it's usually very
> > close - the problem is usually the QP encoding of the content, some
> > clients wrap lines at fewer chars-per-line than our encoder does).
>
> I tracked it down: the message had <cr><nl> terminating
> some of the lines, and Evolution is converting those
> to plain old <nl> (actually deleting them)before
> checking the signature.

Uh, I'm pretty sure you are wrong about what evolution is doing in this
case. Evolution *always* converts to CRLF before feeding it to pgp. How
did you go about tracking this down?

Are you just comparing what is in the mbox? because the mbox is stored
without the CR's (mbox files are not supposed to have CR's).

Jeff

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