It sounds like the real fix for this is to change kmail's behavior If none of the involved parties is willing to, I volunteer to take it to the kmail mailing list at: subscribe: mailto:kmail-request@kde.orgk archive: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kmail&r=1&w=2 I did notice that there is a bug already entered along these lines (#29634) that indicates kmail may not yet have support for PGP/MIME. /paul