Re: [Evolution] Evolution's GPG Behavior

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

yep, your observation would be correct.

Jeff

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 15:43, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> If I understand what you were saying earlier, email clients (like Kmail)
> that make the signature a part of the body of the message, rather than a
> separate attachment, do not understand the signatures that Evolution
> sends? 
>
> I just did a personal test to see if the reverse is true as well - that
> Evolution does not understand a signature if it is included in the body
> of the message, rather than being a separate attachment. It appears that
> that is the case, since the message opened in my inbox as you see here,
> without the indication that it was a signed message. The same happened
> when I sent myself an encrypted message. It appeared in my inbox
> encrypted, rather than being transparently decrypted. To verify the
> signature, or to decrypt the message, I had to copy it and send it to
> gpg manually.
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:25, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > I don't understand what you're asking.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 15:18, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> > > I thought about what JF had said, and did a quick test of my own. I sent
> > > a test message from another account, using Kmail, to this account, which
> > > uses Evolution. The results are below. 
> > >
> > > Am I to take it that this is due to the signature being inlined, rather
> > > than attached? 
> > >
> > > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > >
> > > From: Bill Hartwell <whartwel zianet com>
> > > To: david macmanusnet net
> > > Subject: Test Message
> > > Date: 02 Jan 2003 09:08:06 -0700
> > >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > Test Message
> > > - -- 
> > > All private email sent with PGP encryption. Email for key.
> > > Homepage: http://www.macmanusnet.net/
> > > Freedom in our lifetime: http://www.freestateproject.org
> > > Enforce the Bill of Rights: 
> > > http://www.lneilsmith.com/bor_enforcement.html
> > > A July 1993 U.S. Department of Justice study found that "boys who own 
> > > legal firearms ... have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use 
> > > [than those who obtained them illegally] and are even slightly less 
> > > delinquent than nonowners of guns." It concluded that, "for legal 
> > > gunowners, socialization appears to take place in the family; for 
> > > illegal gunowners, it appears to take place 'on the street' ". - U.S. 
> > > Department of Justice
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
> > >
> > > iD8DBQE+FGPoAEWCS/G3bx4RAk8OAJ9eJcRYTSumWRKiqMpwY7bMT0WzIQCdE5ym
> > > K/CBCqS/JyrWdStsQ7R515E=
> > > =3DMW
> > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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