PGP/Mime Support and HTML/Multipart Support

[holzhannes]

First of all thanks for this very cool plugin. I noticed messages are PGP/Inline signed and encrypted. It would be nice if it would be possible to have PGP/Mime encrypted/signed mails instead. At the moment the plugin is treating all emails as plaintext mails. Therefore html mails will be signed html sourcecode. With PGP/Mime it is also possible to send encrypted html mails.

[fabacab]

To be blunt, I am unlikely to do the work to support this. I understand that it's possible but I'm not personally motivated to do this because I do not use (or accept) HTML email. I'll very happily merge a pull request to support this, though. Thanks for the suggestions, regardless. :)

[holzhannes]

Thanks for your reply I will check if I can do this and of course create a pull request if I am finished.

[fabacab]

Sure. Let me know if you need any guidance or have questions about the current implementation. I'm happy to help, just not going to take the lead on this feature. :)

[belle-isle]

Quite agree that this would be a needed feature, since in the meantime it renders HTML emails useless and painful.

[p7996619]

I just discovered that the rendering/decrypting of PGP encrypted HTML mails doesn't work because of the exact same issue as in #31. (tested with Outlook and GpgOL)

As I understand it, the email would still be in PGP/INLINE format after filtering the text/html content type, but that should work with most mail clients/plugins though.

So maybe that is the actual issue that @holzhannes described.

[fabacab]

rendering/decrypting of PGP encrypted HTML mails doesn't work because of the exact same issue as in #31. (tested with Outlook and GpgOL)

Yeah, this is a known issue since currently no support for PGP/MIME is implemented yet. This is distinct from S/MIME entirely and also different than multi-part MIME. Our work so far has focused solely on ensuring proper handling of unmodified MIME header handling, S/MIME multi-part MIME handling, and plain email Content-Type header handling.

PGP/MIME is another chunk of work that should probably have its own branch and work-in-progress pull request.

[p7996619]

Ok, I think I get it now. The PGP/INLINE body does not contain any mail headers therefore it won't work with HTML emails.

[fabacab]

I get that PGP/MIME is not implemented yet and completely different, but thats actually not what I'm referring to. Even PGP/INLINE does currently not work if the email is sent with text/html content type.

Yes, sorry, I should have been more clear: "HTML email with PGP currently does not work at all, because PGP/MIME is not implemented." So, this is currently the expected behavior. In order for PGP to work with HTML in email, we basically have to implement PGP/MIME. We probably should do that eventually, but I'm not very excited about doing it because I just hate HTML email all together. :\

[heinrich-k]

I would really like if the eMail generated would be of a correct content type: Content-Type: multipart/encrypted; protocol="application/pgp-encrypted";

I thought it was an issue with Thunderbird and opened a bug there. Their analysis is in the Bugzilla tracker https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722340