Re: [Evolution] Feature request: Making GPG signatures not look like attachments?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

Mailer hackers: Question below... ;)


> I'm not referencing inline PGP. This is directly related to the proper,
> RFC standard. Agreed, it's doing its normal behavior, but it'd be cool
> to have this exception. Do S/MIME certificates come as attachments? I
> know this is forthcoming in the 2.0 series, but if so, I don't think
> everyone will want to see that as an attachment for all email.

Sorry, I already have deleted the first part of this thread, thus
stepping in late.


Yes, I personally agree that PGP/MIME messages (which don't have any
attachments beside the PGP stuff) should not show the paper-clip image
noting the user about an attachment. Same for S/MIME.

However, I just checked my PGP/MIME signed mail: The actually do *not*
show the paper-clip. :)


That was in non mailing list folders, like my Inbox. The PGP/MIME signed
mails in some mailing list folders *do* have this paper-clip icon.

Seems, this is related to the foot notes most mailing lists append to
every mail. These added text does not show as attachment on unsigned
messages, but they do so on signed messages. Seems, the confusing
attachment notification is due to the mailing list footer on signed
messages.

Basically, this feels like a bug in the list servers... :-/


Greg, if you wanna file a bug about this, please mention the number.

Mailer hackers: Are my above notes correct? Anything Evolution can do
about this to be smarter than the list servers? Probably not. But I am
sure, Greg and I can come up with a couple of real life examples.

...guenther


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