Re: new gmime/gpg bug

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 03.07.04 22:06 schrieb(en) Pawel Salek:
> On related note: we have gmime-2.1.3 dated 2004.04.01 on the balsa  
> website. Would you recommend other version/date?

This is a *really* good question... there have been several crypto-related  
fixes since then (if you have a look at the Changelog), but there are also  
several api changes, marking frequently used functions as depracted (e.g.  
g_mime_part_get_content()).You may remember that I posted several crypto  
related improvements already in 2.0 a while ago which were never accepted  
(see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2004-May/msg00067.html),  
and they require gmime 2.1.5 or later.

From my point of view, balsa *must* switch to a never version if Jeff  
fixes the long-standing multipart/signature bug, as in the current version  
the rfc 3156 implementation (and even without this new bug; I meanwhile  
strace'd my test app, so I could *really* verify that gpg gets different  
boundaries than those gmime returns!) is unreliable and therefore more or  
less unusable. I must admit that I therefore have very mixed feelings  
about Balsa 2.2; at least we should not advertise it as a MUA which  
supports crypto - which is obviously a step backward (and, yes, there is  
some frustration on my side!).

Cheers, Albrecht.

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