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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by pinky on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @08:10

>Look here for more details on how to get stuff working:
http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html

i know this site. But you have to install some packages, do this and that and so on...
This is not what i understand if someone says "kmail has implemented gpg/mime"
Look at mutt, evolution and other email-programs, this programs use gpg/mime "out-of-the-box" since years!

Why is it so complicated for kmail?
I hope that in the future i will be able to simply install gnupg and kmail and kmail will really use out-of-the-box gpg/mime as default method for signing and encrypting mails and not the inline method.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Anonymous on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @08:31

How about using a distribution which provides a proper setup to you?

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by pinky on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @09:06

>How about using a distribution which provides a proper setup to you?

I think this would be the wrong way.
Why pgp/mime works by many other email clients?
Sure, a distribution could make the necessary steps in the howto and offers his users kmail with gpg/mime.
But i think the right way would be that kmail would offers by default gpg/mime support if gpg is installed.
Why does other mailclients uses gpg/mime with any stable gnupg versions (also older ones) and kmail need some special packages?

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Anonymous on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @09:40

> Why pgp/mime works by many other email clients?

Because their packagers set the right dependencies and compile them with such support?

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Ingo Klöcker on Friday 05/Nov/2004, @06:02

You have to ask the Aegypten team (http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/) if you want to know why they preferred such a nicely modularized design. Actually, it is GnuPG which is getting much more "complicated" (because it's much more modularized). Any mailclient that wants to use GnuPG 2 will have to use it via the gpgme library because using the gpg2 executable and all the helper applications directly will be extremely difficult. That's exactly why gpgme exists (gpgme means "GnuPG Made Easy"). And, BTW, KMail doesn't need any special packages. It just needs GnuPG 2 and a recent version of gpgme. It's GnuPG 2 which needs all those other special packages.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Ken Walker on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @22:59

Which distro would that be? I am using Mandrake 10.1 and it has the same problems as mentioned above.

I have followed the instructions on the page mentioned above for Kmail 1.7 and have been unable to get it all to work together. I have tried, read, got help and still I am not able to use anything but the "deprecated" inling pgp. Neither OpenPGP/MIME nor S/MIME are working here. I am no guru but I have been using Linux for 4 or 5 years but the details of getting this going have me beat and I am at a dead end.

But I do love Kmail, just keep hoping this gpg stuff gets easier.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Ingo Klöcker on Friday 05/Nov/2004, @06:12

That would be SuSE. There it already works out-of-the-box since at least SuSE 9.0 (which included KDE 3.1).

I don't remember whether you've already asked for help on kdepim-users AT kde DOT org. If not then you might want to do this.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by Marc Mutz on Thursday 04/Nov/2004, @14:46

> I hope that in the future i will be able to simply install gnupg and kmail
> and kmail will really use out-of-the-box gpg/mime as default method for
> signing and encrypting mails and not the inline method.

You claim to have KMail 1.7? Go to
Configure KMail->Identity->Modify->Cryptography
and select OpenPGP/MIME as you preferred cryptographic message format. Maybe you just looked for gpg/mime (dunno where you got that term from, never seen it before). You might also like to have a look at the output from
Configure KMail->Security->Crpyto Backends->Rescan
to see if you're missing something. Oh, and of course, don't forget to start the gpg-agent, otherwise you can only sign and encrypt, but not decrypt.

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Re: kmail == Best Mail Client?
by pinky on Friday 05/Nov/2004, @05:52

Thank you very much for this advice!
It really works!
I have always looked at Security->Crpyto Backends for pgp/mime...

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