severity -1 wishlist thanks On Thu, 31 Aug 2023, Lee Garrett wrote: > currently, when using Thunderbird to send OpenPGP/MIME signed mails to > d-d-a, the mail gets silently blackholed (#1050906). It seems like the > reason is that there is a small piece of text before the actual > MIME-encoded data: > > "This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156)" > > Would be nice if the tool in question could just truncate the unsigned bits > instead and accept the mail, assuming there's a valid signature.
The problem there is that we would break DKIM or oversigning of the mail message if we stripped that out. [It also adds a whole bit of complicated code to the signature verification tool which is likely to be wrong.] The real fix is for thunderbird to stop adding unsigned text before the actual mime encoded data. It doesn't add any value whatsoever. [It's one of the only e-mail clients which does this that I'm aware of.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubbornness, when I know I am right. -- John Adams (Letter to Edmund Jennings, 27 September 1782)
