On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 21:27, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:33:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 20:15, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: > > > It takes care of escaping the "^From " for you so you don't have to > > > worry about it. > > > > That's nice, but it doesn't take care of QP encoding it and I'm not too > > sure that it CRLF encodes it either. > > Hi Jeff, > > the -t option on pgp takes care of the crlf issue for you. With respect > to the quoted printable, you sign first, then if you want everything 7bit > clean you qp it. The receiving mailers will unqp it first if the header is > there. Unfortunately for evolution, you don't do this so the signature > won't validate. I would argue that evolution is wrong in this case. You > might argue that this is exactly the problem with one mailer doing this > and the other mailer doing something else, but I think this is the only > rule that actually makes sense. (ie, unqp and then validate or sign and > then qp depending on which way you are going) > > Take the example where your mta server accepts 8bit and the mailer > pgp signs your message leaving it as 8bit. If it goes 8bit all the > way to the receiver there is no problem. Then, there is the problem > where an intermediatory mta will decide to translate your 8bit mail > to qp. This is pretty normal, it will add the quoted-printable header > and your mailer will recieve the mail. If they don't unqp it first > then pgp won't validate, which is why the majority of mailers handling > inline pgp, unqp first before passing it to pgp for validation. I > think evolution is doing the wrong thing here.
You might try reading rfc2015 before saying Evolution does the wrong thing, rfc2015 (PGP/MIME) specifies that the client MUST QP/Base64 encode the content before signing. So no, we are not wrong at all. Jeff > > Tom. > -- > Thomas O'Dowd. - Nooping - http://nooper.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Testing - http://nooper.co.jp/labs > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
