KMail signs emails in cleartext.  Mutt uses PGP/MIME, I think.  (My 
terminology might not be 100% right, but it's something like that).  KMail 
(at least in KDE 3.0 on RH 8.0) doesn't recognize PGP/MIME signatures - all I 
get is an attachment, but it doesn't do the check.  

Evolution also does PGP/MIME, not cleartext (in fact, Evolution 1.0.8 had a 
bug in it that it can't even verify some cleartext signed emails, so every 
email I got from Aaron would say it was invalid when it wasn't - as of 2 AM 
today I'm moved to KMail at home.  :-)  ).  The email I sent last night that 
had the Enigmail link in it was signed from Evolution 1.0.8, so here at work 
I can't even check my own signature.

So, my guess is the Enigmail has a problem with cleartext signed email.

(I'm not signing this so Richard can actually read it without his mail client 
bombing out.  ;-)  )

Ian

On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:50 pm, Jeffrey Clement wrote:
> I use mutt for e-mail.  I believe Aaron and Ian use KMail.  I know the
> two of them have completely different ways of attaching signatures.
> Maybe that is causing the problems.
>
> For interest Mutt doesn't recognize the e-mails send from kMail as
> signed.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:56:39AM -0700, Richi Plana wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So I've tried using Enigmail + Mozilla to do GPG signature verification.
> > So far, I've received three keys: Jeffrey Clement's, Ian Bruseker's and
> > Aaron J. Seigo's. Everytime I open a GPG signed mail from either Ian or
> > Aaron, Mozilla crashes. Mails from Jeff are okay, though. I haven't
> > looked into it in depth, but on the surface, one difference is that I
> > got Jeff's signature off of www.keyserver.net while I got Aaron's and
> > Ian's from wwwkeys.pgp.net.
> >
> > I'll be checking out the keys themselves next (strength, etc.), but if
> > you guys know something (like what's similar with Ian's and Aaron's
> > setup that's different with Jeff), lemme know.
> > --
> >
> > *Richard Plana, B.Sc., CCNA*
> > Secretary
> > Calgary Linux Users' Group

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