GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 212330
encryption compatability
Last modified: 2001-10-12 14:35:03 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Major Version: 0.15.99 Synopsis: encryption compatability Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: Hello, I've noticed that when the "Security-->PGP Encrypt" option is selected, the resultant message is not quite right. Evolution calls /usr/bin/gpg and produces an ascii-armored output. But then, instead of including that text inline, Evolution actually makes the text an attachment. This makes the messages incompatible with other PGP aware mailers (Pine, Eudora, ...). Please include the encrypted output inline, instead of as an attachment. Or at least make it an option somewhere. Other than that, I am really enjoying Evolution. You are doing a great job! Thanks, Ken Unknown reporter: kengallo@hotmail.com, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com.
This has been discussed in a number of PGP/GPG-related bug reports, including bug 204091, bug 204486, and so on. Apparently RFC 2051 specifies the attachment behavior, so it stays. However, I'll mark this bug as a duplicate of bug 210041, which is a feature request for just this behavior. Maybe if enough people scream "me too" this will get implemented. I'm all for following the specifications, but if nobody except Evolution follows the spec, it's kind of beside the point, isn't it? You just end up breaking all of the other mailers who hit upon a standard way of doing this beside, or in absence of, an RFC. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210041 ***