Kmail s/mime

palmer · Guru Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 322 Location: Berkeley, CA

I was wondering if anyone has gotten kmail to work with smime

I have searched the forums, and tried all of them, but none seemed to work

It still says that I do not have support compiled into gpg for mime

Thanks
-palmer

ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

as far as I know you need some dev-version ov gpg / gpgme yet to get this working which are not really stable

Rei
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nigelb · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:16 am Post subject: Any update on kmail with smime

Like earlier posters, I have spent hours installing, uninstalling and reinstalling virtually every known version of gpgme, kmail, libassuan crytoplug etc in a failed attempt to get smime support in kmail. All of the posts that I can find (and other references) are now several months old ... it looks like everyone has given up!

gpgsm is installed and smime works fine in Thunderbird/Mozilla

In vain I have updated KDE to 3.4.2 (all kde stuff is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS ~x86

Kmail still insists that gpgme was compiled without smime support and the certificate manager (kleopatra) refuses to start complaining that Crypto Plugin could not be initialised.

Has anyone got this going? Can anyone offer ideas on how to get smime support in Kmail working?

martindv · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:19 am Post subject:

Could you solve the problem.
Im suffeing the same issue.
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Sleipnir · Guru Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 372 Location: Germany

I solved the problem (at least with kmail).

/var/tmp/portage/gpgme-1.0.2/work/gpgme-1.0.2

make install

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faust · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 40

Thanks, it works with gpgme-1.0.3 also! :lol:

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step · Apprentice Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 198

thanx
btw, gpgme-1.0.2 compiles and works fine too.

mlivingstone · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:41 am Post subject:

Hi Guys,

I would like to try gpgme 1.1.0 and gnupg 1.9.20 but despite forum surfing and howto reading, I cannot figure the right way to get past the M+ etc stuff. :-(

Also, tell me, how does one search for M~ on the forums? The damn software keeps deleting it from the search string. Searching for "unmask M~" and "unmask" is somewhat different in terms of results desired!

Help!

TIA

MarkL

mlivingstone · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:32 am Post subject:

Hi Guys,

Surely someone must know the secret? :-)

TIA

MarkL

Master One · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 754 Location: Austria

Very strange, emerged gnupg-1.9.20 (got slotted), reemerged gpgme-1.0.2, rescanned for security plugins in kmail, but nothing changed, still no s/mime.

So what's missing here?

And why should s/mime require a hardmask developer-version of gnupg (with extra warning, that such a 1.9.xx version should not be used in any production environment)?
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pactoo · Guru Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 553

Much more interesting, why does one require gnupg for s/mime, which AFAIK is X509 based, instead of openssl? I was under the impression, that the pgp system is a competitor to the X509 based certificate system?

mlivingstone · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:48 am Post subject:

mlivingstone · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:49 am Post subject:

PuckPoltergeist · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 189

genstef · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject:

You need to put into /etc/protage/package.unmask at least:

>=app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.0
>=app-crypt/gpgme-1.1.2

those two also need to be emreged with the "smime" USE-Flag set.
Maybe also some other packages like libassuan are needed, I have not really looked into that yet.

I really would like to get this working for users so that I can unmask 1.9.20

You can talk to me on IRC, #gentoo-desktop is maybe best suited here.

mlivingstone · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:40 am Post subject:

Hi Genstef,

mlivingstone · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:12 am Post subject:

Hi Genstef,

Finally got it done. Remind me not to rebuild the entire KDE on a 600MHz machine :-(

In the end, I needed the following ~x86:

>=app-crypt/dirmngr-0.9.3 ~x86
>=dev-libs/libksba-0.9.13 ~x86
>=dev-libs/libassuan-0.6.9 ~x86
>=app-crypt/gpgme-1.1.2 ~x86
>=app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.0 ~x86

I added smime to make.conf

emerged the above and kmail 3.5.2 and when I tried the smime scan, kmail was happy with the results.

I now need to generate a certificate and try it out.

Cheers,

MarkL