GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 214662
gpg signature showing as attachment
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:02:36 UTC
Description of Problem: When signing an email message with gpg the reciever gets an attachment "file.bin" instead of the signature showing inline in the message. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Just create a message and sign it with gpg in evolution. 2. send it to, let's say AUser@yahoo.com 3. AUser@yahoo.com will see the signature as an attachment called "file.bin" Actual Results: signature as attachement "file.bin" Expected Results: The expected result would be to show the signature inline. How often does this happen? Everytime a message is signed. Additional Information:
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 post 1.0. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210041 ***
We can at least include an attachment name and/or Content-Description to make the message look less scary in Outlook.
Ah, but that will require new strings.
I wouldn't mind adding a name param to the Content-Type of the pgp signature part, but I refuse to make evolution send in-line pgp signatures in email.
Created attachment 40676 [details] [review] yay
this is commit'd to cvs HEAD which'll become 1.1 eventually I guess, I've also submitted it for approval to commit to the 1.0.x branch. marking as fixed since it is.
It's not i18nized and I think we want a Content-Description anyway.
added a content-description for each but obviously can't commit until after 1.0 is released.