GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 213933
GPG signed mail appears as attachment to Outlook Express 6
Last modified: 2002-05-03 05:35:09 UTC
Several Outlook Express 6 users have complained the the mail I send them from Evolution, when signed with GPG, appears as an empty message with two attachments. I've verified this locally. Is this a bug or a feature? Surely, the text/plain bit of the message ought to be displayed? Does Evolution need to "hint" this more? I'm pretty ignorant about the ins and outs of this, but thought it ought to be noted.
we send it the way the rfc says to send it, if outlook can't handle it - that's outlooks problem
This doesn't seem like a good answer. There's plenty of precedent for bugwards compatibility, however sad it seems to say. Many people I have to work with use Outlook Express. This bug just about makes it impossible for me to sign my email, too.
I've found this to be a major annoyance, too. GPG/PGP is effectively useless to me if I can't use it to communicate with Outlook users! Is there any way to put pressure on Microsoft to fix this in Outlook? I have doubts... so it will probably come down to Ximian either biting the bullet and hacking a fix into Evolution or else forsaking encrypted communications with the vast majority of the internet!
Maintainer: This looks like a duplicate of bug 204091. Would you agree?
yes, but I'm marking it as a duplicate of bug#217541 because that's the bug I opened ages ago to track complaints about us not sending inline pgp. so bug#204091 is also a dup of bug#217541 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217541 ***