[NTLUG:Discuss] SCO again

[Wayne Dahl]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 17:47, MadHat wrote:

> The issue is Evolution.  We went through this a little while back.   It
> is that the mailer some people use are using S/MIME to sign their
> messages and evolution does not support it.  I have tried talking to the
> developers about a simple patch that would just display the content
> instead of just dropping it, but they weren't interested.  S/MIME is not
> _widely_ used presently, so I guess they don't have enough pressure to
> fix it.  They have been talking about is since S/MIME came out several
> years ago, but has not been an issue until recently as more clients
> start implementing it (such as Netscape and Outlook).
> 
> Basically S/MIME is Secure MIME protocol that allows people to encrypt,
> decrypt and sign mail messages natively within the client, rather than
> having to use something like GPG.  It is based off of the existing and
> long standing MIME protocol.  OpenSSL supports it.  There is a Perl
> module specifically for it, the Net::SSLeay Perl module supports it I
> believe, there is Java support for it, mutt has added support for it,
> but Evolution does not.  gggrrrrr....
> 
> http://www.rsasecurity.com/standards/smime/faq.html

So why do some of them come through ok and some don't?  I've checked the
mailers on the messages and some are sent through Mutt, some show
Unknown mailer for the sender.  The weird thing is, some of Toms (and
also Chris' and also one for Lance Simmons that came through) show up
just fine and the ones that don't always have an attachment that doesn't
appear to exist anywhere, at least in Evolution.  It wouldn't make sense
that these people are changing their mime types randomly in their
messages, would it?

Maybe I'm all wet.  Dunno.  At least I can see most of their messages
when someone else replies to them and quotes them.

Wayne