Opened 10 months ago
Closed 4 months ago
#1488570 closed Feature Requests (fixed)
hide or rename PGP/MIME signature "attachment"
| Reported by: | LeSpocky | Owned by: | thomasb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | 7 | Milestone: | 0.9-rc |
| Component: | User Interface | Version: | 0.7.1 |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | PGP |
| Cc: |
Description
Without encryption plugin Roundcube shows a PGP/MIME signature as attachment. This is questionable from a technical point of view and confusing for users knowing nothing about encryption or working a lot with attachments.
Technically PGP/MIME sets the Content-Type: of a mail to multipart/signed. Unsigned mails with attachment usually have multipart/mixed set. Further: the content type of the signature itself is application/pgp-signature. So it should be easy to detect this. As far as the attachment symbol in the right most column of the mail list is concerned this already seems to be the case, so when looking for mails with attachment you won't find mails which are just signed.
However in mail view the signature is shown as attachment without type and the filename set in the mail which is signature.asc in many cases. With the above knowledge in mind this could be shown without the irrelevant file name but some descriptive name like »PGP signature« instead, minimizing confusion on user side.
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Change History (4)
Changed 10 months ago by LeSpocky
comment:1 Changed 10 months ago by LeSpocky
Mails signed with mutt and PGP/MIME are put together a little different, but the problem ist similar. See a signature (with MIME boundaries before and after):
--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlAW+7sACgkQj7p3RMyHENCCFQCbBF+IvqjUxXCcPD9P4SukbdOd zbYAnjoQxbhNnN75nVSU2oyhJ5WWzn6J =N/3g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
Content type is also application/pgp-signature. This is shown like an attachment with the name "Part 2" instead of naming it "PGP/MIME signature".
comment:2 Changed 5 months ago by alec
- Milestone changed from later to 0.9-beta
- Owner set to thomasb
With commit 830fd2ecbb67c395617e1cc38f343d12af0a2861 signatures are displayed as "Digital Signature". Would be nice to have a better icon for such attachments in Larry skin.
comment:3 Changed 4 months ago by thomasb
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Icon added in commit [11d7e6c825890]

screenshot of PGP/MIME sigend mail