GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 270937
handling messages signed by pgp and s/mime
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:56:42 UTC
Description of Problem: Message signed by BOTH gnupg key and s/mime certificate randomly do not show any information about pgp signature. Also pgp signature is always bad. (Information is displayed that message has been altered by server- no problem with the same server when only signed by pgp key. S/mime signature displayed correctly Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. In the account preferences, security tab set both pgp key and s/mime certificate 2. Check BOTH boxes "always sign outgoing messages". 3. Send a message to your other account. Recive your mail. Actual Results: 1) Pgp key always broken (not correct - seems in one of the header extra text is added "quoted printable": --=-/4Y9+KjBWoyMjty4rfnW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: To jest =?iso-8859-2?Q?cz=EA=B6=E6?= listu podpisana cyfrowo Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ___________ above is pgp part when message signed with pgp and s/mime --=-aLVupf+hA/VvNE48iO0D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: To jest =?iso-8859-2?Q?cz=EA=B6=E6?= listu podpisana cyfrowo ______________abowe is part of the message headers signed ONLY with gpg key. 2) When message is displayed sometime it showing the message about wrong pgp signature, somtime not (on the same message) below screenshots when displaying _same_message_ http://ktosia.interecho.com/aaa/evolution1.png http://ktosia.interecho.com/aaa/evolution2.png Seems to happens half the time message is viewed. Expected Results: 1) I am no expert so i dont now if you can sign message using pgp key and s/mime certificate at the same time and if evolution is handling this correctly or not. 2) Evolution shall display information about pgp signature not beeing correct, or at last that message is signed using pgp signature. now it seems that sometime this is ommited and only s/mime signature check is displayed. How often does this happen? About half the time when message is displayed (when message is signed using both pgp key and s/mime certificate. Additional Information: Evolution version evolution-2.0.3-1.1.101mdk (mdk 10.1) polish language set.
I think this is obscure enough to be moved to 2.1.
Attach example messages and reopen the bug There is also no reason to do what you're doing anyway other than an exercise in testing the software.
This bug has also been reported to Debian's BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277516
*** bug 271980 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
sigh... at least punting target milestone from 2.1 to 2.3 to get rid of all that recent milestones... :-/
Created attachment 47281 [details] Test message
Created attachment 47282 [details] Screenshot of how evolution behave
Created attachment 47283 [details] Screenshot #2
is this still the case ?
Hi, Yes it is still the case. I'm using Evolution 2.22.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. When I sign my message with both PGP and S/MIME, I get the error: Error verifying signature Failed to GPG verify: Broken pipe This is annoying and not just for testing purpose as I am sending and receiving e-mail to different recipient using PGP or S/MIME and don't want to send separate e-mail to each recipient.
This isn't of minor importance; it's of great important. That Evolution cannot properly support PGP and S/MIME together is a huge hole in its credibility.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new bug report ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.