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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 9:43 pm, Neil Williams wrote: > KMail has also improved and is meant to have that MIME thingy that allows > me to verify attached signatures for messages from people using clients > like Evolution and Mutt. I notice that it still sends my email inline and > so far I haven't received a MIME format signed email to test it. It requires a LOT of work - the download and compilation from source of 6 separate archives with customised prefixes (most of which are not documented on the website). This despite having KMail 1.5 and KDE 3.1 installed and the necessary files for Kgpg pre-installed - these were (as I understood the Kgpg dependencies) MEANT to be part of the requirements for the MIME capability but none of the necessary libraries are installed. After finally getting the libraries to install, it does actually work but it seems a long way from friendly. http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html -rw------- 1 neil users 682K Apr 3 00:04 libgcrypt-1.1.9.tar.gz -rw------- 1 neil users 659K Apr 3 00:10 gpgme-0.3.15.tar.gz -rw------- 1 neil users 593K Apr 3 00:09 newpg-0.9.4.tar.gz -rw------- 1 neil users 435K Apr 3 00:06 libksba-0.4.7.tar.gz -rw------- 1 neil users 313K Apr 3 00:10 pinentry-0.6.8.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 neil users 213K Apr 2 23:09 cryptplug-0.3.15.tar.gz Can't be much fun over a dial-up connection. cd libgcrypt && ./configure && make && make check && su -c "make install" cd libksba && ./configure && make && make check && su -c "make install" cd newpg && ./configure && make && make check && su -c "make install" cd gpgme && ./configure --without-gpgsm && make && make check && su -c "make install" cd cryptplug && ./configure && make && su -c "make install" cd pinentry && ./configure --disable-pinentry-gtk --disable-pinentry-curses --disable-fallback-curses && make && su -c "make install" I actually needed: for libksba: ./configure --with-libgcrypt-prefix=/usr/local/ for newpg: ./configure --with-libgcrypt-prefix=/usr/local/ --with-ksba-prefix=/usr/local for gpgme: ./configure --without-gpgsm for cryptplug: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lib for pinentry (in addition to the options above): ./configure --with-gpgme-prefix=/usr/local/ All listed under ./configure --help in each unpacked tarball directory, but not exactly untuitive. The instructions at http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html are VERY specific too - there is one way to get it to work and whenever I skipped a bit of just did things the way anyone else experienced in KMail would do it, it broke. The strangest thing is having to start KMail from a console to allow configuration to complete. As you will (hopefully) see with this email though, it can be made to work. > I'll give Yoper a little more time to live with (I've found a few niggles > already) and I'll post a review on the site. If others have got advice on Yoper is not looking good so far - horrendous delays in program launch, and a seemingly broken bash implentation. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/
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