[Dovecot] OT: PGP signature verification

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu May 8 19:10:45 EEST 2008


On May 8, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Thomas Zajic wrote:

> The mails that you send from your Debian system using Evolution  
> (which in
> turn uses gnupg-1.4.6 internally, ie. an "old" version) are verified  
> just
> fine by Enigmail (which uses gnupg-1.4.9 internally, ie. a "new"  
> version)
> even without any of the "--rfc2440" or "--rfc2440-text" parameters.

I think Evolution doesn't use the --textmode (or similar) parameters  
at all, so it doesn't matter which gpg version is used. So this could  
probably be solved by dropping the --textmode parameter from GPGMail's  
gpg call.

> Mutt, OTOH, using the very same gnupg-1.4.9 that Enigmail uses  
> internally,
> is perfectly happy and able to verify the signatures from both  
> Evolution
> and Apple Mail, without any additional parameters modifying gpg's  
> default
> behaviour.

That's weird. :)

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