S/MIME support in notmuch

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 12/23/2011 11:40 AM, Dan Bryant wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:51:01 -0500, Darren McGuicken <mailing-notmuch at fernseed.info> wrote:
>> When you make those changes to the gpg_context are you breaking gpg
>> signature validation?  Or is the one a superset of the other?
> 
> The current assumption in notmuch is that all encrypted/signed messages
> in a mailbox will be using the same crypto algorithm. This is the first
> thing I want to fix: which crypto algorithm (and therefore, context
> object) to use should probably be detected by the MIME type of the
> message part.

This was an issue i was hoping would get resolved in gmime 2.6, but
apparently it's still open:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641848

So it does look like we're going to need to do the detection and
selecion ourselves.

	--dkg

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