Re: Relationship between kmail and kgpg

On Sunday 01 March 2009 15:17:36 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > I've always set it in KMail's Security and Privacy settings page, and
> > it seems to have always worked in the past.  It says
> >
> > Certificate and Key Bundle Attachments
> > X Automatically import keys and certificates
>
> Indeed. Even though I checked this page I overlooked this setting.
> Anyway, I haven't checked the source code, but the
> description "Certificate and Key Bundle _Attachments_" suggests that
> this setting only applies to certificates and keys _attached_ to an
> email message.
>
I did wonder about that, yet kmail certainly used to import signatures.  
That's how my keyring came to be so big.  I would never have imported that 
number manually :-)

> With S/MIME the certificates are usually included in an S/MIME-signed
> message. With OpenPGP attaching the key doesn't make much sense due to
> the different nature of the PKI (different way of certificate/key
> verification, different way of key distribution, etc.).

It's not actually causing me any real problem.  I just hate mysteries.  I want 
to understand what is happening - what is working, what isn't, and what, if 
anything, I can do about it :-)  The eternal student, I guess :-)

Anne
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