Evolution treats "public key not found" as "invalid signature"

Bug #8499 reported by Martijn vdS
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

I think evolution should at least tell me that the public key was not found (in
the "Invalid signature" box) if that's why the signature verification failed.

A missing public key (from someone else..) is a solvable problem -- and if I
have the key, verification will most likely succeed.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56878: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56878

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've reported the bug upstream:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=66837

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Vincent Untz (vuntz) wrote :

There's a button next to the "Invalid signature" text that shows a window with
more informations when clicked. It seems upstream thinks it's enough.

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Vincent Untz (vuntz) wrote :

Note that upstream bug is now http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56878

I proposed a patch: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=11829
It seems to be working here. We'll see if upstream accepts the patch.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the current version (2.3.2) uses: "Valid signature, cannot verify sender", this
bug is fixed

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