Re: [evolution-patches] Mailer bug #127521: Inline PGP support for evolution (sign and signature verification)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Hmm, so it appears this patch got lost ... well only 12 months late.  Very sorry about that, we needed poking.

I wonder how much work it would be to ressurrect it - i think some of the api's have changed and so it may no longer cleanly apply.

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:50 -0600, Bohumir Jelinek wrote:
> > 
> > This patch implements:
> > 
> >   A) cleartext signing
> >   B) verification of cleartext signed messages
> > 
> > The code is below, or at:
> >   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=24012
> > 
> > Note:
> >   There are no ChangeLogs yet. I will add them when I receive comments.
> > 
> Note2:
>
>   Inline signing:
>
>        I did not implemented the "flag" for "inline signing" the one
>        you recommended me to use (following smime implementation) yet,
>        since I did not have smime working. I am aware that you expect
>        me to do it, since that is the nice way of coding that.
>
>        I did not change my original patch for cleartext signing much.
>
>   Inline verification:
>
>        I mostly expect your comments on inline signature verification.
>        I won't feel offended:) if you suggest some rearrangement of my
>        code, since I was mostly trying to find "easiest path" - to not
>        break anything that works and to copy the existing code
>        wherever it was appropriate.
>
> With regard to test cases:
>
>    I am not sure if you have some standard test cases. If so, I may
>    need to extend them to include test cases for inline PGP.
>
>    I did try Evolution to verify inline signature from mutt, mozilla,
>    rmail and kmail, it works. I did not use any special character sets
>    for that. I also tried to add inlined postscript.
>
>    I did not try to send simple clearsigned message to mozilla, mutt,
>    and k-mail (to test if they can verify it if it is sent from
>    Evolution. I will try it, but I expect it to work. "rmail" can
>    verify cleartext signature from evolution.
>
> Thanks,
> -Bohumir