Re: Issue with verifying cleartext signed messages

[Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>]

On Fri, Jul 01 2016, Sanel Zukan <sanelz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using epa-verify-cleartext-in-region to verify cleartext signed
> messages and noticed it will sometimes fail with notmuch, especially
> when target mail message is part of longer thread.
>
> For example, when signed mail is first in thread, body will look like:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>  <content>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>  <signature>
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> and epa-verify-cleartext-in-region will correctly capture and verify it.
> However, when the message is second or third in thread, notmuch will
> append spaces in front of it, making it looks like this:
>
>   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>    <content>
>   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>    <signature>
>   -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> epa-verify-cleartext-in-region will fail here with: "Invalid cleartext
> signed message".
>
> Error is reproducible - copy the body of message with signature in new
> buffer, remove starting spaces and epa-verify-cleartext-in-region will
> work.
>
> Any idea how to solve this? Or even better, is it possible to display
> messages flat, without tree view.
>
> If you can, please CC me with reply as I'm not member of this list.

Does pressing '<' in show buffer help ?

Tomi

>
> Thanks in advace.
>
> Best,
> Sanel