GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 217564
PGP-encrypted message corrupt headers
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
When using GPG to encryt messages, seeming extranous mulit-part MIME headers are added to encrypted messages. These headers are: --=-DsZCrRxgkOC0EErqjVso Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted Version: 1 --=-DsZCrRxgkOC0EErqjVso Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=encrypted.asc Content-Description: This is an encrypted message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The message is then included after this. These added headers seem to break PGP/GPG functionality in other messaging clients, most notably Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express. Messages are blank with randomly-named attachmends (depending on platform). These attachments must be saved to disk and then unencrypted which is decidedly inconvenient. Inspection of other PGP encrypted messages by other applications (including Outlook using GPG with the GPG plug-in) do not have these multi-part boundaries and include the encrypted information as plain text. I'm not sure what issue is involved here, but this does seem to limit an otherwise fantasitc product. Thanks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216738 ***
this isn't a duplicate of that other bug. This is working just the way it's supposed to work according to rfc2015. sending in-line pgp is a whole other thing entirely, so this is a NOTABUG.
the feature-request you are maybe looking for is bug#217541
I don't see why this is a feature request. I'm not trying to send a multi-part document or even PGP/MIME for HTML documents. I'm sending plain text documents and it seems like it's adding headers that don't need to be there. If I use GPG or PGP in Outlook, the resulting plain-text message doesn't have any content-type header sections and works just fine in any PGP-enabled mail program I've ever used. Maybe I'm just looking at this as a compatability problem with other mainstream clients and not as a feature to be implemented.