On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:30, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb Jonathan DeSena um 16:18: > > > I am not sure why I have this problem in Evolution and others do not. I > > am using evolution-1.4.5-7 straight out of Fedora Core 1. No fancy > > setup. I do have gpg installed. I have not used it yet myself though. > > Ok, then Evolution should not be the problem. I am running Evolution > from FC1 too, no enhancements, just GPG signing activated. > > > I read this list at work, so maybe this is happening due to the mail > > server setup? I think the mail server is some Microsoft product. > > That could explain all. My brother gave me the feedback once too. They > have Exchange as their central mail server at office. This crap of > server has a fair amount of bad behaviours and disregards standards. I > think he said he got my GPG signed mail as an attachment with the name > "SMIME.txt". Doesn't this say all? S/MIME is a total different signing > method than GPG/PGP and if the server can not distinguish those it is > clear what happens ... > > > Some think that anyone with this problem should just switch mail readers > > or keep quiet. Up to now I did keep quiet, but you asked. Personally, I > > would like to find out why this is happening to possibly fix it. > > Right, I asked and did request for controversy feedback. Of course it > would be better if no one would have problems with GPG signing. > > > Maybe I will test Mozilla mail (which I find inferior to Evolution for > > my purposes) to see if it is the client or some server setup. Until now > > I assumed your client created the attachments. > > Fine, looking forward for the next reply by you. I bet 1$ it is > Microcrap Exchanger. > > > Jon Mozilla allows automatic inline display of attachments, so these messages are readable in Mozilla, but the attachments remain. If you turn off automatic display, then it looks like Evolution. I cannot find a similar option for Evolution, though. Another problem is that Evolution does not thread messages with these attachments properly (they do not go into threads at all -- but that is an Evolution issue). Are these attachments normal for PGP signed messages? From the list it looks like this might be the case. Jon
