Re: [Pan-devel] On gmime signing: Was: compile error from current git master head

[Dominique Dumont]

On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:04:51 CEST Jack wrote:
> On 2021.09.07 03:44, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > Gmime doc mentions: "Attempts to sign the content MIME part with
> > userid 's private key using the ctx signing context. "
> > 
> > I guess this code is used when posting a MIME message with a part
> > signed with your private gpg key. I never tried that.
> 
> Yes but how does one do that?  I have now posted two articles (to
> comp.security.pgp.test) in one checking "PGP-Sign the article" and in
> the other checking "PGP-Encrypt the article" but both appear to have
> been sent with no encryption or signing.  I always thought of Mime as
> dealing with attachments, but I see no way to attach anything to a
> post.  

Yes. I cannot get it to work either. 

> From the link to the gmime docs, is it correct to assume that if
> the signing failed, I would have seen some sort of error notification?

Indeed, but there's a small error in dgreaf patch. I've added a comment in his 
MR.

All the best