Is kolab srewing up other people's gnupg signatures?

Johannes Graumann johannes_graumann at web.de
Wed Apr 16 15:57:57 CEST 2008


Johannes Graumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a somewhat convoluted mail setup:
> 1. A number of mail accounts all forewarding to a gmail account
> 2. fetchmail imap-pulling the messages from the gmail account and
> inserting it into a local kolab installation
> 3. kontact imap-retrieves the mail from kolab.
> 
> Recently - not really sure since when - I started noticing that while a
> self-addressed gpg-signed message validates perfectly well from the "Sent
> Mail" folder, the received one fails the validation. I can not formally
> exclude that this is happening on the non-kolab smtp I'm using, but it's
> unlikely since 2 independent smtp servers at my disposal result in the
> validation-failure.
> When diffing the complete exported mime messages - the sent versus the
> received version - I get the following:
> # diff Message_Sent Message_Received
> 0a1
>> 
> 2,3c3
> < Content-Type: text/plain;
> <   charset="us-ascii"
> ---
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 21c21
> < Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
> ---
>> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
> 
> Something in the kolab suite might/is messing up the message header and
> invalidates thereby the signature. How might I track this? Who's a likely
> perpetrator? Do other people see this or is it something I messed up in
> the configuration?

And btw: looking at the message source at googlemail: they have it right, so
Kolab definitely is to blame ...

Joh




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