Re: [Scottish] KDE 3.1 released

2003-02-08 Thread ray 
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Hi Mark,

 Kmail does support gpg out of the box. What those plugins allow you to do
 is sign and encrypt all message parts. Which is something kmail has not
 been able to do before. It also can use certs.

I do not understand what has happened here.  I use gpg signing a lot, mostly because I 
am a Nominet tag holder and signed mail to the Nominet Auotomaton is how domain 
registrations are managed.  With KDE3.05/Kmail1.4.3 I could choose from Options to 
send sugned mail and on reading signed messages they were recognised as such and 
signaled as verified or not.

I upgraded to KDE3.1 by downloading the SuSE8.1 rpms, dropping out of the graphical 
environment, su root, rpm -Fvh ..., back out of root, and startx.  Seemed painless. 
When I tried to sign a message in KMail1.5 the option was not available. When I 
recieved a signed messsage a dialogue popped up:
Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified.
Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or 
ask your system administrator to do that for you.

I downloaded the files for the plug-in and then discovered that I needed some 
developer libs, then ran out of time so just used another machine with KDE3.05 to send 
signed messages.  I had however moved the gpg options file to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and 
have probably closed and opened Kmail.

Today I find that the 'Sign Message'  option is back, and am about to try it. 

 Incoming signed mail (e.g. your message to this thread) still produces the warning 
dialogue. 
Older signed messages that had been retrieved with KMail1.4.3 does not produce the 
dialoge, and does display the status of the signature.

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  rayH
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Re: [Scottish] KDE 3.1 released

2003-02-08 Thread Mark Hillary 
Hey,

Ok, think I see. Basicly the built in GnuPG support in kmail, can not handle 
multi part message, SMIME. This is still true. But with the plugins it can. 
When using the plugins, if you compose an email you are given the option of 
which to use on the email. 

I am using the plugins, so the sig data is in a septate part then the message. 
This is what is causing the problem, because kmail 1.5 knows what the message 
is, and looks if there is a plugin to check the message. 

Mark Hillary


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Re: [Scottish] KDE 3.1 released

2003-02-08 Thread ray 
That seems reasonable.  Ithink that what I did to make it work was change from the 
options to gpg.conf files and restart KMail.

I think that what you are using is the IETF endorsed OpenPGP, which is described in 
MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy, RFC 3156. 
S/MIME is proprietory and favoured by the fans of Bill G.  Ref: 
http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html

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[Scottish] KDE 3.1 released

2003-02-02 Thread ray 
FYI
On January 28th 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1, a major feature 
upgrade to the successful KDE 3.0 series.

http://www.kde.org

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