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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Daniel Molkentin on Wednesday 03/Nov/2004, @13:40

Depends on your definition of "default":

If you mean "works as long as you install the required libs", that works perfectly since KDE 3.3. Most distributors even make kmail depend on those libs, so it's a complete non-issue to the user.

If you mean "works build-in": This will probably not happen. It's not really complicated to install gnupg (note: this does _not_ mean the cryptplug interface which was really complicated). Reason is that we simply cannot be experts, so we rely on gnupg (or gpgsm for that matter), because there is no reason to start over from scratch when there is a perfectly working solution for something as complex as S/MIME and encryption in general.

All in all, S/MIME works since KDE 3.2 at least, and if your distributor was at least a bit qualified, he made it working for you.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by pinky on Wednesday 03/Nov/2004, @13:45

thank you for this information.
i have debian sid and gnupg installed (i use it with mutt).
But kmail 1.7 doesn't have an option for gpg/mime.

Have i missed something?

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Daniel Molkentin on Wednesday 03/Nov/2004, @15:30

You need GnuPG 1.9 for S/MIME. I don't know if debian packages are available for that.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by pinky on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @04:15

what's the different between pgp/mime and s/mime?
Are they compatible to each other?

> You need GnuPG 1.9

Debian uses gnupg 1.2.5 and the gnupg homepage (www.gnupg.org) says that 1.2.6 is the lateste version, so what is GnuPG 1.9 ?

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Daniel Molkentin on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @09:14

GnuPG 2.0 pre. This is the first one to support S/MIME without the need of cryptplug.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Distro Whore on Tuesday 16/Nov/2004, @20:33

That's right, KDE made a release that depended on unreleased software. Pissed off every distro's KDE maintainers. What, are they all supposed to switch over to a version of gpg that even upstream won't bless yet?

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