Is kolab srewing up other people's gnupg signatures?

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sun Apr 20 23:02:28 CEST 2008


On Saturday 19 April 2008, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> >> 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 ...
> >
> > Definitely? It could as well be fetchmail. How do you insert the
> > message into Kolab via fetchmail?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ingo
>
> Like this:
>
>  set postmaster "postmaster at morannon.homelinux.org"
>  poll imap.gmail.com with
>   proto imap
>   user "johannes.graumann at googlemail.com"
>   pass "<I'M NOT TELLING>"
>   is "johannes.graumann at morannon.homelinux.org"
>   here
>   no keep
>   ssl
>   smtpaddress "morannon.homelinux.org"
>   limit 100000000
>   mimedecode

The only peculiar thing seems to be the 'mimedecode' option. Have you 
tried without?


Regards,
Ingo
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