[Evolution-hackers] Post-1.0 PGP wishlist (was Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?)

2001-11-30 Thread Eric Kidd
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

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-30 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 22:39, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: Evolution currently has problems verifying inline PGP signed messages from mailers when they are qp'd by a gateway along the way. Mutt doesn't have that problem so I'm suggesting being liberal (as it is inline pgp anyway) and unencode first

[Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Levente Farkas
Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 05:25, Levente Farkas wrote: hi, and at last gpg simple unusable with evolution. when I try send an encripted mail with evo (I have to go to the menu and click on a menu item, it would be much simpler if I able to check it somewhere within

[Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 05:25, Levente Farkas wrote: hi, and at last gpg simple unusable with evolution. when I try send an encripted mail with evo (I have to go to the menu and click on a menu item, it would be much simpler if I able to check it somewhere within the composer window and I

[Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Dan Winship
The problem is that you guys don't fully understand the problem, to you it sounds as simple as just pipe it to pgp or gpg and whallah but it's not that simple. Well, not if you expect the other end to be able to verify your signatures at least. Sure, I could just pipe to pgp/gpg, but if the

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 20:15, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: It takes care of escaping the ^From for you so you don't have to worry about it. That's nice, but it doesn't take care of QP encoding it and I'm not too sure that it CRLF encodes it either. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker -

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Thomas O'Dowd
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:33:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 20:15, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: It takes care of escaping the ^From for you so you don't have to worry about it. That's nice, but it doesn't take care of QP encoding it and I'm not too sure that it CRLF

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 21:27, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:33:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 20:15, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: It takes care of escaping the ^From for you so you don't have to worry about it. That's nice, but it doesn't take

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 21:27, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:33:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 20:15, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: It takes care of escaping the ^From for you so you don't have to worry about it. That's nice, but it doesn't take

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Levente Farkas
Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 05:25, Levente Farkas wrote: hi, and at last gpg simple unusable with evolution. when I try send an encripted mail with evo (I have to go to the menu and click on a menu item, it would be much simpler if I able to check it somewhere within

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 05:25, Levente Farkas wrote: hi, and at last gpg simple unusable with evolution. when I try send an encripted mail with evo (I have to go to the menu and click on a menu item, it would be much simpler if I able to check it somewhere within the composer window and I

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Dan Winship
The problem is that you guys don't fully understand the problem, to you it sounds as simple as just pipe it to pgp or gpg and whallah but it's not that simple. Well, not if you expect the other end to be able to verify your signatures at least. Sure, I could just pipe to pgp/gpg, but if the

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Thomas O'Dowd
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:10:15PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 19:50, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:33:32PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: In-line pgp mode is a broken way to do it - so many things can go wrong. Should I first QP/Base64

Re: [Evolution] pgp unusable?

2001-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
...and if you're on DOS, piping it to pgp has text in the canonical CRLF format, whereas in Unix it doesn't. Also, if the text contains 8bit text, do we QP encode before or after we sign it? If we QP encode before, will the other mailer know to feed the encoded text to pgp? Or will it assume