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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] composing html messages
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-20 14:59:19
Message-ID: 200402201559.30049 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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Edwin, first of all many thanks for working on this.

On Thursday 19 February 2004 03:50, Don Sanders wrote:
> > - signing/encryption of HTML messages
>
> I think traditional GnuPG Signing/Encrypting doesn't make sense for
> HTML mails. Because there is no significant body part, HTML mails
> only consist of alternative attachments, (and traditional GnuPG
> signing/encryption doesn't support encrypting/signing attachments).
>
> I think if KMail is configured for traditional GnuPG support then
> signing/encryption should be completely disabled, anything else would
> be dangerous and a security flaw.

Edwin's solution to ask the user in this case is a very good solution. 
(See his reply and my reply to Andreas' reply to Edwin's reply.)

> S/MIME support should be possible, but it doesn't seem to make sense
> working on that now with the S/MIME code being modified in the
> aegypten_branch and pending merging.

OpenPGP/MIME and S/MIME do already work since KMail 1.5 with the crypto 
plugins. The changes in the aegypten_branch which aim for obsoleting 
the crypto plugins don't change that much code.

> > I hope these issues won't stop my patch going into cvs.
>
> Ingo, Cornelius I'd appreciate a comment on the S/MIME
> signing/encryption and HTML editing situation. Wait for the aegypten
> merge or commit before?

That's the wrong question. The HTML editting patch can be committed as 
soon as it's possible to sign HTML messages with OpenPGP/MIME (then 
signing with S/MIME should automatically work as well). If I understood 
Marc's reply correctly then it won't be that easy to accomplish this 
without either introducing a very ugly hack or a redesign of KMail's 
message and body part classes (i.e. merge KMMsgPart and PartNode (to 
e.g. KMail::MessagePart) and make KMMessage inherit from 
KMail::MessagePart.

Regards,
Ingo

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