Re: [Evolution] pgp/gpg implementation doesn't work correctly

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:40, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 03:30, Kleiner Hampel wrote:
> > Am Sam, den 15.11.2003 schrieb Jeffrey Stedfast um 15:46:
> > > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:14, Kleiner Hampel wrote:
> > > > Will this 'feature' be implemented in future versions of evolution?
> > >
> > > I have no idea.
> >
> > Perhaps you or me can contact ximian about this "feature".
> > Do you have a evol. developer email - adress?
>
> In case you didn't know, Jeffery Stedfast (aka fejj) *works* at Ximian.
> He's the guy who wrote Evolution's GPG code.
>
> He gets this question, what, about once every two weeks? :)
>
> While it is a continued disappointment to all of us that Evo won't do
> inline PGP signatures, it turns out there are reasonably good reasons
> for it (about 1/2 philosophy "right-thing-to-do", and about 1/2
> consequences of the way PGP is implemented in Evolution).

fwiw, I've reworked the MIME parser so that it should now be easier to
implement this if anyone ever gets around to it.

> If you search the mailing list archives (try google on 
> "evolution PGP site:lists.ximian.com") you'll see a large number of
> threads on this topic; likewise, Ximian's bugzilla has at least two bugs
> (which those list threads will refer to) which contain somewhat detailed
> technical arguments on the topic.

bugs #17540 and #17541

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com