[sylpheed:31284] Re: PGP/MIME-signing breaks sig delimiter

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri May 11 22:56:55 JST 2007


On 11/05/07, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Only yesterday I noticed that, when PGP/MIME-signing mails, sylpheed is
> sending out non-standards-compliant messages and has been doing so for
> several months!
>
> This is reproducible with multiple versions of sylpheed - I tried last
> night with several version from 2.2.0 upwards - which makes me wonder
> if it isn't actually a GPGME-related problem.
>
> The signature delimiter in unsigned mails is as it should be:
> dash-dash-space on its own on a line.
>
> If you sign a mail using the PGP/MIME method (not clear text) then, once
> the mail is in the send queue, the trailing space on the signature
> delimiter has been stripped.
>
> I haven't yet been able to figure out whether it's GPGME stripping this
> space or it's sylpheed not feeding it to GPGME in the first place.
>
> Any insight into this (or a workaround?) would be welcome.

2006-09-19

	* libsylph/utils.[ch]
	  src/compose.c: compose_write_to_file(): chomp all trailing spaces
	  when signing with PGP/MIME instead of using quoted-printable for
	  compatibility with other MUAs.


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