Re: [Evolution] Evolution and GPG

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I'm currently using evolution 1.4.3 with GPG, palm sync'ing, LDAP, etc.
> works like a champ, my only beef is the way that one has to process
> pgp'ed emails that were sent by an Outlook client. Saving the message
> off, then manually decrypting it. A bit of a pain, eh?

Here are the relevant bugs if you want to raise your voice for
GPG/Inline support:

support for receiving in-line pgp
 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17540

support for sending in-line pgp
 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17541


> Are there any clever hacks to not have to do this? or perhaps plans to
> have this function changed so that it can process encrypted emails in
> its' own?

I never heard of anyone implementing such a hack, but it should be
possible with filters at least to verify signatures:

The filter should trigger on a generic phrase in the mail body or has to
be applied manually. Let the filter pipe the message to a shell script,
which will separate the signed text and verify the signature -- set a
flag (like important) on success.


This will not work for encrypted messages that way, as Evolution only
takes the return value -- the message itself cannot be modified that
way. However, you may be able to let a script generate a file containing
the decrypted message...


> No rush, have been doing it this way for quite a while now, and am used
> to it, but would certainly be cool to have it work.

HTH

...guenther


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