GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 607595
Do not auto-sign when replying to a signed message
Last modified: 2013-09-13 01:07:59 UTC
Running 2.29.5 on current Fedora Rawhide. I have a GPG key set up for my main account, but I do not normally sign all messages, and I have 'Always sign outgoing messages when using this account' disabled. However, with Evo 2.29 (this did not happen with 2.28), whenever I reply to a message which is itself signed, the 'PGP Sign' menu item under the Security menu is checked, and Evo tries to sign the mail when I hit Send. I'm not sure if this is considered a 'feature', but to me it is unexpected and undesired behaviour.
Yes, it is intentional behaviour, it was introduce in bug #314333 where it was requested. Maybe some users prefer not doing this automatically?
Yes. Me. I very much prefer not doing it automatically. If you don't sign all your emails (which I can't because I send some from mobile devices that don't support PGP/GPG), signing just some is pointless and in fact confusing. I reserve PGP signing for messages to people who already know me and know my GPG key and understand why I would be signing that specific message. I specifically do _not_ want Evo to make 'logical assumptions' about when I want to sign messages.
at least this behaviour should be configurable somewhere, even if it's only gconf.
I read 314333; the request there really was not for this behaviour. That request was about replying to messages that are *encrypted*, not messages that are signed. The 'problem' that was addressed in 314333 really doesn't apply in the case of a message that's signed; there's no intrinsic reason you'd especially want to sign a reply to a signed message, by the reasoning discussed in 314333. Can't this be applied only to encrypted messages?
Oh, right, I reread it and it was really only about encryption, not about signing. When cooking the patch I thought the same would be good-to-have for only-signed-messages too, but I agree it's slightly too much. I'll comment the relevant part in the code right away.
Created commit fe5294f in evo master (2.29.90+)
(In reply to comment #4) > I read 314333; the request there really was not for this behaviour. That > request was about replying to messages that are *encrypted*, not messages that > are signed. The 'problem' that was addressed in 314333 really doesn't apply in > the case of a message that's signed; there's no intrinsic reason you'd > especially want to sign a reply to a signed message, by the reasoning discussed > in 314333. Can't this be applied only to encrypted messages? In my case, I'd really like replies to signed mail to be signed by default, but I'm not against making this configurable.
(In reply to comment #7) > In my case, I'd really like replies to signed mail to be signed by default, but > I'm not against making this configurable. Let's do it in bug #662914