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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: new "kmail with PGP" error
From:       Andreas Gungl <Andreas.Gungl () osp-dd ! de>
Date:       2000-03-27 12:38:55
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Sven Radej schrieb:
> 
> (...)
> >> >> >just I got a message, which was encrypted by pgp. It was a multipart
> >> >> >message, containing the info as plain text and html formatted.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >I guess, the default to display the message in kmail is to use the
> >> >> >html formatted part. So kmail doesnīt realize, that the message is
> >> >> >encrypted, since the "--- BEGIN PGP MESSAGE ---" is between html
> >> >> >tags.
> 
> How is this possible? I thought that PGP messages encrypt only body, and not
> attachments? Unless we are using "application/pgp" approach? Which we should.
> 
> The multipart/alternative code is really a hack - it fails to display further
> attachments because they are (Outlook and netscape do so) in part2. KMMessage
> cannot handle attachments in attachments. There was some talk about using new
> message lib from kdenonbeta written by S. Taferner, but itīs not even ported to
> Qt2 (right?). In any case, parsing code must be redone - present situation is
> just bunch of (my) hacks.
> 
> (...)
> What confuses me about PGP is this:
> 
> You write a message with attachments and click on encrypt. Result - only body is
> encrypted and attachments are not. All unix mailers - AFAIK - do so (if they are
> not using application/pgp). Which mailer encrypt attachment (HTML in this case)?
> 
> And what is the right thing to do, not only for pgp6? To encrypt whole message
> from top to bottom? Or to encrypt every part?
> 
> >>
> >> Andreas
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> Sven Radej      radej@kde.org
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Well, a friend of mine is using MS-Mail (Outlook?) together with a
plug-in out of the win-pgp-package (he is a Linux fan, but in the office
he must use MS programs). The program encrypts the mail with pgp and is
then building a (second) html part with that encrypted ascii text too.
Nonsense for me, but I can't read his mail with kmail :-(( because it
defaults to the html part (which is encrypeted and not decryptable via
pgp...). All other things about how to solve it are said.

Andreas

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