[Evolution] Encrypted attachments with Evolution 0.14 do not work

Dan Berger dberger@ix.netcom.com
Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:16:14 -0700


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I've just initiated a test to see if I can reproduce your
observation.  I'll let you know.

Have you filed this in bugzilla?  (I suggest you do - let me know the
bug number and I'll add my comments to it once I get a response on my
test.)

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:41:24PM -0600, Ralph Sanford wrote:
> I recently tried to send attachments with my email from Evolution 0.14
> encrypted using pgp.  What the recipients received was an encrypted
> email which when decrypted had the attachment included within the body
> of the email (not as an attachment) and the attachment appeared to
> remain encrypted.  The 3 recipients have not changed their systems since
> the last encrypted mails were sent successfully and all 3 recipients
> have reported the same problem.  The only change I can think of is that
> I upgraded from Evo 0.13 to 0.14 via Red Carpet.
>=20
> All the recipients are using pgp 6.5.8, the keys were exchanged years
> ago and have not changed.  I believe all the recipients are using PMMail
> as their email program.  Until yesterday the use of encrypted mail
> between us worked without problems.
>=20
> My system is SuSE 7.2 with pgp 6.5.8.  The evolution is 0.14 as
> downloaded last week using Red Carpet.
>=20
> Has there been a change to the encryption methodology of Evolution?=20
>=20
> Should I change my evolution setting in some manner?
>=20
> Have other user successfully sent encrypted attachments using evolution
> 0.14?  If I send encrypted attachment using evolution from my computer
> to my wife's computer also using evolution then the attachments are
> received correctly at her computer.  However the majority of my email
> recipients are not using evolution as their email package so this is not
> as significant as being able to communicate with other users.
>=20
> Any suggestions?  Or does some one know how to back grade to evolution
> 0.13?
>=20
> Thanks
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> Ralph Sanford       -       If your government does not trust you,
> rsanford@telusplanet.net   -   should you trust your government?
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> DH/DSS Key   -   0x7A1BEA01
>=20

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Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: check http://home.ix.netcom.com/~dberger/pgp.html for recent keys

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