[Evolution] Attaching emails invalidates PGP signature

[Ron Johnson]

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On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:58 -0700, Dan Berger wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 11:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:=20
> > > Because, yes, line #51 seems to match the criterion:
> > > $ grep -n ^F test.msg
> > > 1:From ron.l.johnson@cox.net Fri Jul 30 04:33:54 2004
> > > 19:From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > > 51:France, where are they in expressing their condemnation of such
> >=20
> > Ok, just installed v1.5.91 (what's in Debian's experimental
> > branch) and the PGP signature now validates, but the attached
> > emails still don't open.
> >=20
> > But then, they are of type application/octet-stream, so I wouldn't
> > expect them to be able to be opened.
> >=20
> That seems to be a problem with drag-n-drop'd messages.  I had noticed
> it before and filed a bug, which was closed as NOTXIMIAN.  I don't
> recall if I ever filed a bug against gnome-vfs, however.

The problem is "how does Evolution know to scan thru all the emails
on your system, and know exactly which attachments to convert from
application/octet-stream to message/rfc822?"

I don't think they can.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
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Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBBC4AGF5Sl4Yg0wGsRAge1AJkBf4/HK5tSy9/OvhIwD3voCXqz4ACfYy4b
6Fgp3SYNC4HFW4uGXEMjVAM=
=BSy6
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