Hi, I have half an idea that I might have a go at attempting the inline gpg support bounty for Evolution (Bug #127521) seeing as the current attempt seems to have stalled with only send support implemented.
After spending an hour or two reading bug reports (#17540, #17541 in particular) about this issue, and some old mailing list posts, I'm very cautious about proceeding as there seems to be a great deal of hidden complexity in this issue. So my current strategy is this post, to get an up to date idea of where this is at and what might be possible. 1) There are (incomplete) patches attached to bug #127521, however nothing has been done since then and a post by Not Zed at the time stated they weren't going to be applied anytime soon. The only other posts / bugs from after May 2004 that I can find related to this issue, and ranty posts from dissatisfied users :P Can I safely assume the previous attempt has stalled and there is not any current work in this area? 2) Required Support The bounty lists the require functionality as "support of inline-pgp" emails, with an extension of allowing them to be sent. Given that there seems to be widespread agreement that inline pgp is broken fairly fundamentally, would a patch that only implemented decryption / viewing support of received messages be acceptable? 3) Chance of Inclusion Should I manage to come up with a patch to support viewing of inline-pgp messages, that addressed the issues raised so far (ie nested inlines etc), and assuming other prerequisites (ie coding style, copyright stuff) were satisified, would this be a candidate for inclusion into Evolution or have their been developments since the posting of the bounty that would preclude this? If the answer to the three questions is affirmative, then I'm reasonable keen to at least have a whack at solving this problem. Look forward to your responses. Kind Regards -- Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
