Is kolab srewing up other people's gnupg signatures?

[Johannes Graumann]

Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> 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?
It's one of the attempts to deal with the problem ... it doesn't change
anything.

Joh