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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: A few thoughts concerning Kmail and GnuPGP...
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-05-28 22:21:03
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On Saturday, 26. May 2001 00:43, Darian Lanx wrote:
> Even though, this is a dual Pentium III 933 with 1 Gig Ram, kmail
> seems very slow when verifing signatures of mails. I do not know, if
> that is the fault of my gpg 1.0.5 or kmail, but I wanted to mention
> it.

Is it faster with GnuPG 1.0.4? Also having much keys in your keyring 
can slow down GnuPG very much.

> When Kmail verifies the signature of a mail, the GUI blocks, and does
> not redraw until the verification has run. THis is especially then a
> problem, when I wish to simply progress without reading the mail, for
> example, when I have clicked on it accidentally in a mailing list
> folder.

Making the automatic signature verification configurable is on my todo 
list. Non-blocking signature verification would also be nice.

> Messages, which originate from me (for example to a mailing list) are
> also checked for valid signature. Sometimes I do click on my own mail
> in a thread of a mailing list to read up what I have written and
> others have replied. Would it be possible, to make checking of the
> signature for messages which obviously originate from me, optional?

Maybe I'll implement this.

> Verification of signatures is not cached. If I, by accident, or maybe
> on purpouse click on the same message again, after reading another
> mail, the message is again verified, which means, Kmail vlocks until
> that has happened, etc etc. When reading about 20-500 mails a day
> with about 50% encrypted, that can be quite time consuming.
> I do not know if it possible, but caching of already verified mails
> would be nice. when I click on it again, it is simpyl shown as
> verified, maybe until I close Kmail.

Yeah, caching would be nice. Maybe we could save the state of the 
signature verification to the index files. Caching of decrypted 
messages is IMHO a bad idea because of security reasons and because of 
memory consumption.

> Thank you for listening to me.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Regards,
Ingo
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