On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 11:36, Ian Scott wrote: > I've just upgraded to 1.2.0 and have come across some strange behaviour > with respect to encryption and signed messages. > > 1. When I receive encrypted email sent from something other than > Evolution, I am no longer asked for my passphrase - rather, the message > opens with the message still encrypted, and the only way to decrypt it > is to copy paste into a file and run gpg manually. > > Oddly, when I send myself some encrypted email with Evolution, Evo > presents me with the passphrase box, and after successfully entering, > the message is decrypted.
I presume this is inline pgp? We've dropped support of inline pgp at this time. A couple of minor architectural changes are needed to support it - but the design of it is pretty broken anyway. > 2. With the previous version of Evolution, signed messages all arrived, > with the digital signature as an attachment, even when digitally signed > in-line. Or at least, that's what the behaviour seemed to be. However, > I am now finding an inconsistent display of digitally signed messages, > some are in-line, some are attachments displaying the lock icon. Again, this is because inline-pgp is no longer supported. > 3. Not totally related to the above, and I understand there are > numerous messages in the archives about this, but it concerns me that > using Evolution to encrypt email and sign it is incompatible with a huge > number of other email applications because of the differences in > PGP/MIME and S/MIME. Is there a search function for the archives? I'm I dunno, check the url at the bottom of the mail for info on the archives. At worst, there's always google, and "+site:lists.ximian.com" > trying very hard to understand the point of view of the Evo developers - > but with so many incompatibilities, I'm not fully satisfied I understand > the reasoning why Evo does not seem to work as far as decryption/signing > with so many other email applications. It's a real pain in the butt for > users of Kmail, Outlook, and almost any other MUA to receive encrypted > or signed email from me when using Evolution. I love Evolution.. except > this one issue is a real pain! We only support the more recent standard of pgp/mime. Unfortunately there's an earlier rfc which isn't fully compatible with the newest one. Again pointing to the problems of the pgp implementors. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
