On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:44 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> If anyone else uses signed mail and can confirm this
behaviour it
>> would be useful - I would report this against bugzilla but I need to
>> know which component is the underlying problem.
>>
>>
> Check to make sure you are sending plain text. When sending plain text
> Thunderbird and Evolution should have no problem, but if you send html
> (eg. multipart/alternative) you are not going to get a good signature
> verification. I would be glad to run a couple of tests with you. Also,
> does it make a difference if you are sending inline or PGP/MIME.
I was sending HTML - and I will try with plaintext after seeing your
post - by the way this account I don't use in either TB or Evo but
from a web browser and did try firegpg for a while - but it caused a
load of problems in the browser so switched it off - I have multiple
mail accounts for different purposes (work, family, friends, computer
stuff etc) and I don't always want them opened in the same client.
However I do note that TB sends HTML signed mail with no problems at
all - it just seems that it is Evo that may be unhappy unless it is
plaintext - why should there be a difference in signature verification
if plain text or HTML?
I will post back after a test mail....
Yup you hit it in one! Sending a signed but plaintext email from Evo
to TB gives a good signature verification in TB - HTML mail gives a
problem! Yet I can send a signed HTML email from Evo to Evo and it
verifies just fine - I find this weird! Where is the root cause of
this? Is it something in the sending process in Evo, or in the
receiving end at TB?
By the way what I did for the test was to reply to an HTML mail and
then in Evo compose window change from HTML to Plain Text - the only
security option that I can see in the compose window is to select
Security->PGP Sign - there was no attachment in this case and the
quoted text was inline - if that is what you were asking?
I would like to get to the bottom of this.....
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mike c