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Bug 237623 - gpg signature shows up as attachment in msg list
gpg signature shows up as attachment in msg list
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
1.5.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal trivial
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 256112 257903 257959 268466 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-04 23:22 UTC by michael balzer
Modified: 2005-06-08 13:31 UTC
See Also:
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Description michael balzer 2003-02-04 23:22:24 UTC 
Package: Evolution
Priority: Cosmetic
Version: 1.2.1
Synopsis: gpg signature shows up as attachment in msg list
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Mailer

Description:
all mails with gpg/pgp signatures get the attachment flag (icon) in the
message list.
this is very annoying, because i cannot see if a mail really has an
attachment
until i open it...



Unknown reporter: balzer@expeedo.de, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com.
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Comment 1 Rodney Dawes 2003-07-13 13:58:34 UTC 
This is because the signature is an attachment. I don't know how hard
it is to detect the mime type of the attachment in the message list,
though. Probably even harder for IMAP/Exchange/etc... stuff. It would
be nice to have a signature icon instead of a paperclip though, for
signatures.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2004-04-05 12:44:14 UTC 
*** bug 256112 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Rodney Dawes 2004-04-21 00:35:11 UTC 
I'm marking this fixed since the attachment icon no longer shows up
for gpg signatures.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2004-05-12 10:20:00 UTC 
*** bug 257959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 André Klapper 2004-05-12 10:21:06 UTC 
to quote gerardo from irc about 1.5.7: "this works only for IMAP,
since it scans folders as soon as you use the account, however POP
accounts still seem to wait." therefore marking 57959 as a dup;
reopening this one.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2004-10-19 00:53:56 UTC 
*** bug 268466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 André Klapper 2005-01-12 17:10:23 UTC 
*** bug 257903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 oa 2005-06-08 13:00:07 UTC 
For Evo 2.2, S/MIME signatures on IMAP accounts show up as attachments (I don't
receive much PGP/MIME signed messages to verify that). "Me too" on the "very
annoying" comment - being able to see which messages have actual attachments is
extremely useful, but I'd hate to ask people to stop signing their mail.
Comment 9 Jeffrey Stedfast 2005-06-08 13:31:49 UTC 
the problem here is that in order to not make imap any slower, we must limit
ourselves to the toplevel content-type which in this case would be multipart/signed.

knowing only that piece of information, it is impossible to tell if the message
has attahments or not - no matter which we claim (yes to attachments or no), we
will be wrong sometimes. this ui tidbit is not meant to be 100% accurate - even
for local messages when we have the full message content available to us,
because it's impossible to tell what constitutes as an attachment except in the
UI code