GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 215083
gpg message signing should offer 'inline' or 'attachment' option for signature
Last modified: 2001-11-12 03:37:03 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Minor Version: 0.99.0 Synopsis: gpg message signing should offer 'inline' or 'attachment' option for signature Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: Currently, when you gpg sign or encrypt an e-mail, it uses the 'attachment' style, where a message is sent with the signature attached as a separate file. Unfortunately, both pine and Outlook Express 6 will make the message appear blank with two separate attachments (one test, and the signature). This makes adoption of using signing and encryption more difficult, since you then need to explain the the recipient that they need to open the text attachment (of course, you can't explain it to them in a signed e-mail!). It would be nice if evolution allowed the old-style inline pgp/gpg signature, which is deprecated and looks ugly, but which will show up in all e-mail clients. Unknown reporter: marc@apocalypse.org, 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 post 1.0. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210041 ***