kmail: strange behaviour with some s/mime encrypted emails

Andreas Petzold Andreas.Petzold at mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Wed Feb 6 14:33:05 CET 2008


Hi Bernhard,

Quoting Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>:

> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:09, Andreas Petzold wrote:
>> * Header info:
>>        - from thunderbird:
>>
>> Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime;
>>       name="smime.p7m"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m"
>> Content-Description: S/MIME Encrypted Message
>
> Sounds like one of the symptoms of
> https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue2182
>
> Which version are you using precisely?

enterprise 20071204 r744693 packaged by kde-redhat.

> I suggest to try a recent enterprise35 version and file a report
> in the tracker above, if this still does not work.

OK, recently I got an update of my kdepim packages
to version 20080109 r758806. And hooray - no more garbled messages!
But now I can't decrypt them :-( since it says: Unsupported algorithm.
And this is confusing! As you can see from

http://tinyurl.com/38fx3e

my old kmail version was able to decrypt the message.

Is thunderbird doing something non-standard compliant when it omits
the "smime-type=enveloped-data" header or is this a problem in kmail?
Or am I missing something here?

>
> BTW: Your first tinyurl did not work for me.

Sorry, now it should work but

http://tinyurl.com/2jq4z6

Cheers,

Andreas




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