[Evolution-hackers] Post-1.0 PGP wishlist (was Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?)
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:33, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: THIS IS A BUG IN GPG! gpg tells us everything went fine, so Evolution has no way of knowing that it didn't encrypt to all the recipients we told it to encrypt to, thus it's not our fault. Yuck. There's actually several of these bugs, probably all in GPG. 1) Mail to people with unsigned keys silently encrypts to the sender only. 2) Signature verification of unvalidated keys shows a big success icon (but the accompanying text warns about the problem). 3) I *think* that e-mail to people without keys also encrypts to sender only. Anyway, I'm a fairly intensive GPG user, so I have a few features on a wishlist. All of these are security-related. A) The ability to save a passphrase for (say) 10 minutes without saving it indefinitely. This lets me read mail without endlessly retyping my (really long) passphrase, but doesn't allow me to accidentally save it when I walk away from the computer for a few hours. B) The ability to encrypt all mail to certain addresses by default. There are several people to whom I should *always* encrypt my e-mail, for security reasons. But every once in a while, I'll forget to check the box on the menu. Very, very bad. C) The option to encrypt all responses to encrypted e-mail. If somebody sent me something encrypted, it's presumably private. But if Evolution quotes the original message in my reply, and I forget to check the menu box, I'm screwed. I've convinced Mutt to handle case (B) and (C). But Evolution is much nicer mailer than Mutt, and I'd like to be able to use it without taking quite so many security risks. I'm a US citizen, so I don't know if I can contribute code to this effort. But if were legal for me to do so, I'd be more than happy to help. Thank you for all your cool PGP-hackery. Cheers, Eric ___ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
[Evolution-hackers] Python slapd goodies
I decided, in a moment of madness, to make Evolution talk to the Dartmouth Name Directory, an old directory service at my alma mater. This was a slightly crazy thing to do, because I didn't know the first thing about LDAP. :-/ Fortunately, the OpenLDAP project's slapd daemon supports external shell scripts, and there are lots of LDAP-related RFCs out there. (And I'd worked with the DND before.) So after a /very/ long day of hacking, I can now access the DND through LDAP. If anybody else has an older, funky directory service, and wants to be able to access it from Evolution, please let me know. I can package up my Python code in a module and release it. Cheers, Eric ___ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Hard freeze warning!
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 13:00, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: So, everyone will be working hard this week to isolate and fix all the major and most common bugs. Bugs that actually prevent usability of the application will take precedence over the usual nit-picking. No crashing bug shall be left alive. It's not the crashing bugs which concern me. :-/ It's the ones which completely corrupt and screw my mailboxes, and lose thousands of stored messages. Please see my earlier message for details. It's easy to work around these, but it's also easy to reproduce them. It's also the sort of thing that I can easily trip over when creating a new Evolution setup and importing a big collection of mail. (Actually, I've found lots of one-shot, hard-to-reproduce bugs in 0.15, too. Just now, when I was editing this message, a line of text--right where this paragraph is--appeared in grey for no good reason. I put a cursor on it, hit delete until I reached the mail. above, and my cursor disappeared. Then the entire edit window (below the size/style toolbar) turned grey, and Evo told me that the editor was gone. If I see it again, I'll feed a screenshot and reproduction details to bugzilla. Oh, for instant replay.) Bugs aside, however, Evolution is the best mail client I've ever used, seen or heard of. ;-) Cheers, Eric ___ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
