Re: Encrypted email to VM from Thunderbird?

[Daniel Barrett]

Thank you, Mark. I've filed a bug:
https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm/-/issues/490

Dan

On December 24, 2024, Mark Diekhans wrote:
>
>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
>>