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Hi Dan,
Honestly I'm not sure that GMime is the best place to implement inline PGP support. Realistically, what you'll probably want to do is to just pipe text/plain content through some sort of inline PGP detector/decryptor/verifyer when the text goes to be rendered for the user. This is really best done in the mail client itself, I think. Something that neither of the URLs that Daniel linked you to, which I hope you think about when implementing decryption support, is the fact that you literally have no clue what kind of data you'll get when you decrypt that blob. When I was working on Evolution, I recall having bugs reported about zip files being in the encrypted blobs and we would render what looked like complete garbage since we'd try to render binary data as text. I think this type of situation is rare, but it's something to take note of. I'm willing to look at proposals for including this in GMime (perhaps you can come up with an elegant way of doing it that would fit nicely), but I *think* it's probably best done in individual clients since piping data through gpg is the easy part (especially now that we have libraries like libgpgme), the hard part is finding a way to display that to the user and/or figuring out what to do with decrypted data once you've decrypted it, and then splicing it back in with the surrounding text content. None of that can really be done in GMime itself. Jeff On 10/28/2014 10:44 AM, Dan Milon wrote: Hello, I'd like to see support for PGP inline in gmime which will then be used by mu (https://github.com/djcb/mu). Has someone done work on this previously? I'm willing to give it a try but I'm not familiar with the codebase. Could someone provide an outline of the work needed to achieve this? Thanks, Dan. |
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