Re: Encrypted email to VM from Thunderbird?

[Mark Diekhans]

Hi Daniel,

This does seem like a bug and we don't have any issues about it.

If you would like to create a bug report on gitlab in
  https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm

If you don't want to setup a gitlab account, I can file the bug
report, however you would get notified of any progress.

Right now, the revitalized VM has limited bandwidth and
skill sets to work on bugs, so I can't predict when it would fix.

Cheers
Mark


Daniel Barrett <dbarrett@blazemonger.com> writes:
> Has anyone successfully exchanged encrypted emails between VM and
> Thunderbird, particularly in the direction Thunderbird-to-VM?
> 
> After exchanging public keys, I can run Emacs's epa-mail-encrypt on a
> message and send it to a Thunderbird recipient, who decrypts it
> transparently via OpenPGP. That works fine. However, when they send me
> an email encrypted in Thunderbird, and I run epa-mail-decrypt on my
> end, the decrypted result is in some sort of multipart format that's
> VM isn't handling transparently, which I've shown below. The user's
> actual decrypted message ("Hello world!") is buried within. Is there a
> way to make decryption completely transparent so the result in VM
> looks like an ordinary email message, so I can just read it, hit
> Reply, etc.?
> 
> :: This is an OpenPGP/MIME encrypted message (RFC 4880 and 3156)
> :: --------------zL1zHOJY30mO3iRo9i7N8qdL
> :: Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted
> :: Content-Description: PGP/MIME version identification
> :: 
> :: Version: 1
> :: 
> :: --------------zL1zHOJY30mO3iRo9i7N8qdL
> :: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="encrypted.asc"
> :: Content-Description: OpenPGP encrypted message
> :: Content-Disposition: inline; filename="encrypted.asc"
> :: 
> :: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 
> boundary="------------Q42NxzOscUOgwz0h0tnzKNee";
> ::  protected-headers="v1"
> :: Subject: test encryption
> :: From: Thunderbird person <email-here@whatever.com>
> :: To: Daniel Barrett <dbarrett@blazemonger.com>
> :: Message-ID: <b7a0289d-ed4d-41c8-89c4-44b075d27ea6@whatever.com>
> :: References: <26474.45976.753806.379233@blazemonger.com>
> :: In-Reply-To: <26474.45976.753806.379233@blazemonger.com>
> :: 
> :: --------------Q42NxzOscUOgwz0h0tnzKNee
> :: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 
> boundary="------------egutjd3rZ0CxEKL1UeaB80si"
> :: 
> :: --------------egutjd3rZ0CxEKL1UeaB80si
> :: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> :: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> :: 
> :: Hello world!
> :: 
> :: --------------egutjd3rZ0CxEKL1UeaB80si
> :: Content-Type: application/pgp-keys; name="OpenPGP_0x8BF061FEE2712A7F.asc"
> :: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="OpenPGP_0x8BF061FEE2712A7F.asc"
> :: Content-Description: OpenPGP public key
> :: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> :: 
> :: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> :: 
> :: xsDNBGdqrVUBDAC5ksTT3UTxsPiGCsa2o67Yb+ymCmEzN85bS4CvdSybpev+jWQC
> :: ...key omitted...
> :: -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> :: 
> :: --------------egutjd3rZ0CxEKL1UeaB80si--
> :: --------------Q42NxzOscUOgwz0h0tnzKNee--
> :: --------------zL1zHOJY30mO3iRo9i7N8qdL--
> 
> Thank you for any tips!
> Dan
>