[Evolution] Encrypted attachments with Evolution 0.14 do not work

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

Is this before or after the decryption in PMMAIL? Also, the
"Content-Encodin\nbase64\n" seems a bit wrong.

Jeff

On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 01:29, Ralph Sanford wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 12:27, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > There weren't any encryption changes between 0.13 and 0.14 as far as I
> > can remember.
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> 
> 
> I have now tested sending pgp encrypted attachments using Evo 0.14 (the
> Red Carpet version from last week) from 3 separate computers and the
> results are a non-functioning message when received on a non-Evo email
> program.  All 3 computers had worked with Evo 0.13 and are SuSE 7.2
> systems with the Red Carpet upgrade from 0.13 to 0.14.  Between the Evo
> computers sending encrypted attachments works fine and the Evo computers
> can all properly receive encrypted attachments from other emailers.  The
> problem appears to be limited to Evo sending encrypted attachments to
> non Evo emailer programs.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge the only changes to the 3 computers I tried
> to send the Evo encrypted files from were that the computers were
> upgraded using Red Carpet after ver 0.14 became available.  (Other
> updated programs from Ximiam occured at the same time such as Control
> Center.)  All 3 computers had been able to send encrypted attachments to
> non Evo systems when using Evo 0.13
> 
> Below is an example of an encrypted message sent from Evo 0.14 to a non
> Evo email program.  Note that the pgp encrypted attachment does not show
> as a separate attachment as it should but is included in the body of the
> email.  This little example shows some of the header, the body of the
> email and what appears to be the attached file.  (The information about
> content type does not typically show up with the opened encrypted
> email.)
> 
> 
> ******
> START
> ******
> 
> Subject: from Linda's machine
> From: Linda Sanford <lsanford@telusplanet.net>
> To: Ralph Sanford <rsanford@telusplanet.net>
> Content-Type: multipart/encrypted; protocol="application/pgp-encrypted";
> 	boundary="=-Yi9vrxwVWvUMI/utMEQt"
> X-Mailer: Evolution/0.14 (Preview Release)
> Date: 02 Oct 2001 20:57:47 -0600
> Message-Id: <1002077868.1179.6.camel@lsanford>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> 
> 
> --=-x1HU38Qwke+lADyVzIXs
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> test from Linda's machine using Evo 0.14 of pgp encrypted attachment to
> computer with WinNT and pmmail.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --=-x1HU38Qwke+lADyVzIXs
> Content-Type: application/msword
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=staff_home_numbers.doc
> Content-ID: <1002077620.1137.1.camel@lsanford>
> Content-Transfer-Encodin
> base64
> 
> 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAJAAAAAAAAA
> AA
> EAAAJgAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAACMAAAD///////////////////////////////////////////
> //
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> //
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> //
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> //
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> //
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> //
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> //
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> /s
> pcEATSAJBAAA8BK/AAAAAAAAEAAAAAAABAAA3AUAAA4AYmpiauI94j0AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AA
> AAAJBBYAIhQAAIBXAACAVwAA3AEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD//w8AAA
> AA
> AAAAAAD//w8AAAAAAAAAAAD//w8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGwAAAAAACwBAAAAAAAALAEAAC
> wB
> etc., etc.
> 
> *******
> FINISH
> *******
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 20:41, 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.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > My system is SuSE 7.2 with pgp 6.5.8.  The evolution is 0.14 as
> > > downloaded last week using Red Carpet.
> > > 
> > > Has there been a change to the encryption methodology of Evolution? 
> > > 
> > > Should I change my evolution setting in some manner?
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions?  Or does some one know how to back grade to evolution
> > > 0.13?
> 
> 
> -- 
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> rsanford@telusplanet.net   -   should you trust your government?
> 
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