When signing mail Evolution forces base64 or quoted-printable for the purpose of reducing the likelyhood of mail gateways modifying the body and making the signature unverifiable. However, this causes serious problems when the mail has to be read by programs that do not understand these encodings (such as Linus Torvalds' patch scripts). Furthermore, if mail is sent directly rather than through an ISP smarthost (and the MTA on localhost isn't broken), mail can only corrupted by the recipient (that presumably is capable of correctly configuring a mail server). This patch adds a couple of options to allow non-base64/quoted-printable encodings in GnuPG signed mail and in S/MIME signed mail. If you consider my implementation unacceptable, please still consider the feature request and provide an alternate implementation. The S/MIME part is untested.
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Well the patch looks clean enough, but i would like this to be approved by the Ximian guys. Is there a bug there about this, can you provide a link ?
no more traffic, closing. reopen if you can provide requested info.
