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Re: What should go into 1.5.7?



On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:10:20PM +0100, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:37:30AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:40:22 +0100, Christoph Ludwig said:
> > 
> > > There's another one that makes me considering switching to another 
> > > mailclient:
> > > The S/MIME support is... improvable, to put it mildly.
> > 
> > See
> > 
> >   ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/aegypten/mutt-patch-1.5.6cvs.g10.gpgme.6.gz
> > 
> > for a working solution.  It is in real world use for more than 2
> > years.  Thomas considers to include it with 1.5.8.
> 
> Thanks. I will have a closer look after 1.5.8 was released.
> 
> Is there some documentation what changes compared to the openssl based
> solution described in doc/smime-notes.txt? How do I need to change my .muttrc?
> Where are the certificates and keys stored?

I gave it a try. I installed dirmngr-0.9.0, libassuan-0.6.9,
libgpg-error-1.0, pinentry-0.7.1, gnupg-1.9.15, gpgme-1.0.2, libgcrypt-1.2.1,
and libksba-0.9.10. Then I built mutt (current CVS) with --enable-gpgme.

But I soon got stuck due to insufficient documentation:

 * I eventually managed to make gpgsm import my certificates. `gpgsm --import'
   is not documented in the info file, but I guessed it due to the analogy to
   `gpgsm --export' (which is documented).

 * But I cannot find a way to import my private keys. How am I supposed to do
   this? I have the keys (+ corresponding cert) in a pkcs#12 file. 

 * I have a mail with valid S/MIME signature in my INBOX. When I open mutt
   prints in the status line `S/MINE signature successfully verified.' But in
   the viewer I read:

     [-- Begin signature information --]
     Error checking signature
     [-- End signature information --]

   How can I find out where this spurious error message comes from?

The documentation I found at www.gnupg.org seems to more or less ignore
S/MIME.

Regards

Christoph
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