Andrew Long wrote the following on 1/25/11 4:48 PM:
> What I mean to say is that I had temporarily enabled 'open pgp mime' in the
> 'composition' tab of preferences, and that I do not have s/MIME disabled (is
> that a difference?)
OpenPGP/MIME and S/MIME use different certificates ("keys").
In order to be able to use S/MIME you must apply to and obtain from a CA
(Certifying Authority) a S/MIME certificate and import it into your
e-mail client (or web browser). If you don't own such a certificate, or
if you own it, but have not yet imported it into your e-mail client,
there's no point in enabling S/MIME.
Furthermore, if you did own such a certificate, and had imported it into
your e-mail client, I don't believe you could use both formats
(OpenPGP/MIME and S/MIME) simultaneously to sign the same e-mail.
OpenPGP/MIME's format is not processed correctly (sometimes not at all)
by certain e-mail clients. If you are interested in this issue, please
search the archives of the gnupg-users forum.
> But it definitely looks like the problem is in the open pgp format of the
> signature :-(
I suppose you meant to write "...the problem is in the OpenPGP/MIME
format of the signature".
> My last two mails had bad signatures and used open pgp mime.
Your last two mails (OpenPGP/MIME signature) as well your third e-mail
(in-line signature) verified OK ("good signature") here in
Thunderbird+Enigmail and in GPGMail 1.3.2RC1.
As for GPGMail, Apple's Mail (independently from OpenPGP) application
will use *by default* the MIME format for any e-mail that contains an
attachment, or for any e-mail that has been composed in HTML or Rich
Text format. E-mails in HTML or Rich Text format are "multi-part"
e-mails, they contain two separate parts, the plain text part, and the
HTML or Rich Text tabs.
Best regards,
Charly
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