Re: evolution and gpg

[Sven Heinicke <sven@research.nj.nec.com>]

> If you can verify it this way, it was a clearsigned message. These will
> - according to evolution authors - never be fixed. The problem with
> clearsigned messages is that the mailreader cannot know that it is a
> signed message (without scanning it, that is), and so evolution decodes
> it (line endings, charset conversions, qp) before it checks the
> signature. [1]
>
> For the same reason, evolution creates only multipart/signed signed
> messages - which in turn gives headaches to outlook users.
>
> cheers
> -- vbi
>
> [1] yes, I do consider this a major design flaw in evolution - the mail
> body should only be changed for displaying, storage should always be
> possible unmodified - so the unmodified body should be available
> internally. One of the reasons I will eventually leave evolution.
>

crack, I guess it's time to find search for another imap mail client.  And
calender and address book.  Thanks for the help.