Re: Bug#755544: notmuch-emacs: doesn't check gpg/pgp signatures by default

Subject: Re: Bug#755544: notmuch-emacs: doesn't check gpg/pgp signatures by default

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:39:04 -0400

To: Jameson Graef Rollins, David Bremner, Vagrant Cascadian, 755544@bugs.debian.org

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor


On 07/22/2014 12:30 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 07/21/2014 09:03 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>>> notmuch folks: it seems that in vagrant's message, and several others I
>>> checked, it notmuch-crypto-process-mime==nil, then no signature button
>>> is created at all.
>>
>> Yes, this is true.  The signature button is pretty meaningless if we're
>> not processing the signature.
>>
>> Maybe instead by default we could have a signature button that opens up
>> a notmuch-crypto-process-mime customization buffer?
> 
> Or the button could just re-load the current view while processing the
> signature, and send "you can customize notmuch-crypt-process-mime to do
> this automatically in the future" to *Messages*.

Oh, and it seems like in the case where no verification or PGP/MIME
procesing was done, we need to make it a *lot* clearer to the user that
no signature verification was done.

	--dkg

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