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Hello.

I feel like this must be an F.A.Q. but I could find no mention of it in
the searchable archives or the FAQ-O-Matic.

Anyway, it seems that evolution has a bug in message display that
affects GPG-signed email sent to mailman 2.1.x lists (when the GPG
signature uses PGP/MIME). Mailman adds the list's signature as a MIME
attachment, and for some reason evolution shows ONLY the list signature,
and not the body of the message at all!

This is apparently fixed in Evolution 1.4.3, but unfortunately a large
number of our users are using prior versions of evolution, like 1.2.2
that's included in Red Hat Linux 9. I suspect this is true of many
users around the community. Though this is an evolution bug, most of
our users are seeing it as a "mailman problem," because suddenly they
cannot view their messages after we upgraded to mailman 2.1.x.

Does anyone have any ideas or workarounds? Is there any way to make
mailman 2.1.2 go back to the old behavior that doesn't use MIME to add
the signature (or just skips it for MIME messages) ?

Note: I've also heard that Outlook Express has a similar problem
reading GPG-signed emails with evolution's MIME-added signature, so this
isn't really uniquely an evolution problem. But Outlook Express handles
GPG pretty pitifully anyway, so I'm not worrying about that.

Thanks for any advice,

Jeremy

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  • Will Yardley at Aug 14, 2003 at 9:12 pm

    On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:01:09PM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
    Note: I've also heard that Outlook Express has a similar problem
    reading GPG-signed emails with evolution's MIME-added signature, so this
    isn't really uniquely an evolution problem. But Outlook Express handles
    GPG pretty pitifully anyway, so I'm not worrying about that.
    Well maybe Evolution were copying Lookout! so exactly, they decided to
    reproduce the bugs as well....

    Of course, the obvious workaround is not to GPG sign list mails, or to
    clearsign instead of using PGP/MIME....

    --
    "Since when is skepticism un-American?
    Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same..."
    (Sleater-Kinney - "Combat Rock")
  • Jon Carnes at Aug 16, 2003 at 6:00 am
    Jeremy there are a bunch of ways that we can handle this, but knowing
    "certain" people I'm sure the only acceptable solution is for us to
    modify the archived emails in the mbox, so that the past archives show
    up properly. Of course that would not deal with the on-going emails....

    The settings to modify Pipermail behavior are all in
    ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (look in Defaults.py for examples of items to
    change/set)

    There are a lot of options we can change there and then play with
    re-archiving. I've got a few test beds of 2.1 running on my home
    network so it's easy for me to do. Let me know if you want me to look at
    it.

    The best answer for Trilug is for someone to setup Mhonarc on the
    Mailman server and use that instead of Pipermail. I would volunteer to
    do that, but everytime I touch the servers Tanner and I come to blows,
    and I've had enough of him to last me the rest of my life.

    Jon
    On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 13:01, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
    Hello.

    I feel like this must be an F.A.Q. but I could find no mention of it in
    the searchable archives or the FAQ-O-Matic.

    Anyway, it seems that evolution has a bug in message display that
    affects GPG-signed email sent to mailman 2.1.x lists (when the GPG
    signature uses PGP/MIME). Mailman adds the list's signature as a MIME
    attachment, and for some reason evolution shows ONLY the list signature,
    and not the body of the message at all!

    This is apparently fixed in Evolution 1.4.3, but unfortunately a large
    number of our users are using prior versions of evolution, like 1.2.2
    that's included in Red Hat Linux 9. I suspect this is true of many
    users around the community. Though this is an evolution bug, most of
    our users are seeing it as a "mailman problem," because suddenly they
    cannot view their messages after we upgraded to mailman 2.1.x.

    Does anyone have any ideas or workarounds? Is there any way to make
    mailman 2.1.2 go back to the old behavior that doesn't use MIME to add
    the signature (or just skips it for MIME messages) ?

    Note: I've also heard that Outlook Express has a similar problem
    reading GPG-signed emails with evolution's MIME-added signature, so this
    isn't really uniquely an evolution problem. But Outlook Express handles
    GPG pretty pitifully anyway, so I'm not worrying about that.

    Thanks for any advice,

    Jeremy

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