On Friday 14 March 2003 10:32 am, Curtis Rey wrote:
Ya, I know. I've been having some problems. I hope there fixed.
I've been watching your posts and noticed the inclusion of the public key was semi-random -- I generally ignored the overlong sig-with-key and chalked it up to user error. I just checked, the "attach" menu has three options at the top: append sig, attach <any> public key, and attach MY key. This is "next to" the "options" menu which has the "sign/encrypt" message actions. I can see how it would be (semi) easy to pick the wrong menu item and therefore attach the key rather than sign the message. OTOH, there is a global option: sign every message, which I'm reasonably sure you've chosen. It would be interesting to know whether or not the inclusion of the full key is an artifact of Kmail as (a) I'm using it myself, (b) we JUST held a "keysigning party" at my Linux user group last night, and (c) I intend to start using this "feature" myself [in fact, as I was writing this message I just pulled up the settings screen and checked "automatically sign all messages", so you'll get my (unverified) signature on this message...]
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:32 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
[...] the proper sig-indicator is <dash><dash><space>.
I've often wondered about the trailing "space" -- how can you tell whether or not it's there without resorting to a hex dump of the message? As such, the sig indicator is not something under direct control of kmail users. For instance, I have a signature set for this "identity", and all I put into this is the line "Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net". Kmail itself prepends the "--<spc>" when writing messages [and actually, I can somewhat verify there is a trailing space by noting where the cursor appears if I move to that line and press <end>] However, what happens of some transport "somewhere" in the chain of sending the message decides to strip trailing spaces on lines? [after all, save for the "proper" indication of a sig, there is no reason to send something that nobody will ever see, right?] -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net