[mew-int 2601] Re: pgp problems with PGP/MIME

[maxigas]

hi!

thank you for your very informed advice!

i tested with a friend and it seems to work perfectly now. :)

maxigas

From: Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats at example.com>
Subject: Re: pgp problems with PGP/MIME
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:21:22 +0900 (JST)

> On September 3, 2008, [mew-int 2599],
> kazu (at iij.ad.jp) wrote:
> 
> > > Debian/Icedove/Enigmail (operating-system/email-client/pgp-plugin)
> > > 
> > > and when he receives a PGP/MIME message (signed and encrypted) from me he just sees an empty mail
> > > with two attachments (Part1.1 and Part1.2). so it seems Enigmail cannot handle the messages
> > > created with Mew PGP/MIME options correctly.
> > 
> > I believe Mew produces well-formed PGP/MIME messages.
> > So, you should ask the same question to the Enigmail community instead.
> 
> Probably, the bug is in Thunderbird (Icedove) and not yet fixed.
> 
>   Bug 7269 - Content-Type header should be handled as case-insensitive. 
>   https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7269
> 
> The below is a workaround:
> 
> (defadvice mew-encode-multipart-encrypted (before my-ct-fix activate)
>   (when (string= ct "Multipart/Encrypted")
>     (setq ct "multipart/encrypted")))
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Tatsuya Kinoshita