different way of enrcypted e-mails including signatures/ Sylpheed-Claws-bug

Ingo Klöcker ingo.kloecker@epost.de
Sun Apr 13 02:34:01 2003


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On Sunday 13 April 2003 00:55, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> Sylpheed-Claws does not recognize signatures of PGP/MIME-encrypted &
> signed e-mails sent by mutt or gpgrelay (I call them group X). But it
> does from Sylpheed-Claws, Mozilla, Evolution... (I call them group
> Y).
>
> Now I've found the big difference beetween X and Y:
> Y takes the e-mail-body, calculates the signature, adds a
> MIME-envelope and put the signature in that.
> X puts the signature in another way to the encrypted part. I guess it
> is a kind of combinded method described in chapted 6.2 in RFC 3156.

Exactly.

> If I decrypt a e-mail by X manually, gpg verifies it automatically.
> There is no MIMI-envelope including the signature left. Thus,
> Sylpheed-Claws cannot verify it.
>
>
> I want to be as exact as possible in reporting this bug to the
> Sylpheed-claws-devs. Can you pleas tell me, the method that
> Sylpheed-Claws does not support?

Well, you gave the answer already yourself. Apparently, Sylpheed-Claws=20
doesn't support the combined method.

Regards,
Ingo


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