GNU bug report logs - #18393
mm-view-pkcs7-verify ignores mml-smime-use

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten <at> wi.uni-muenster.de>

Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 18393 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten <at> wi.uni-muenster.de>
Cc: 18393 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18393: mm-view-pkcs7-verify ignores mml-smime-use
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 21:08:10 +0100

Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten <at> wi.uni-muenster.de> writes:

> I use mml-smime-use to prefer EPG over OpenSSL.  However,
> mm-view-pkcs7-verify ignores that variable and calls
> smime-verify-region (which uses OpenSSL).
>
> For signed e-mails with
> Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime; name="smime.p7m";
>    smime-type=signed-data
> this results in the error message: "No CA configured"
> (And the e-mail is displayed in base64 encoded form; the text is not
> shown.)
>
> In contrast, mm-view-pkcs7-decrypt does observe mml-smime-use to
> choose between EPG and OpenSSL.

I'm very unfamiliar with the smime code.  Could you take a stab at doing
this yourself?  :-)

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