[ale] testing firegpg with mailman

[Jim Kinney]

Fun!! your message came through just fine with good signature. I've also signed the reply (using FireGPG).

I do have MailScanner on the ALE list incoming side. It is my understanding that the original message is supposed to be pristine unless there is a rule causing a disinfection to occur. Otherwise the mime is unpacked, scanned and discarded.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
Jim,

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 14:23 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> OK. So Mailman is (maybe) munging the gpg signature. Fixing that will
> be a challenge if it's caused by signing the wrong sections of the
> message body.

Something is not right here.  I run a mailman site supporting several
dozen lists and multiple domains (IT-ISAC, ISAC Council, +++) and I
don't see this problem.  We use gpg/pgp all the time on those lists.
Furthermore, my own signatures through the ALE list seem to be coming
through fine.

Couple of years ago, I did run into a problem with MailScanner which
Julian and I took a few days to shoot.  In that case, MailScanner was
unpacking the mime and then repacking it (quoted printable in that case,
I believe).  While the contents of the attachments remained unaltered,
the encoding encapsulation changed (Mime is ambiguous on several points
and something time MailTools or MimeTools will pack something
differently than will Evolution or Thunderbird).  We had to stipulate
something in MailScanner where the message was passed unmolested if
nothing was found untoward in it, rather than repacking it and sending
it on.

There are a couple of MailScanner Mime settings that could impact this
but I seriously doubt it.

Try this for a test.  Send a message back to me and to the list.  Just a
Reply-All should do just fine.  I can do a byte for bye, attachment for
attachment comparison.  Make SURE <mhw at wittsend.com> is on the cc list,
so I get a direct copy.  You should be able to verify my signatures on
this message the same way.  Compare the results from the ALE relay to
the direct message.

Regards,
Mike

> What is needed now is to test a gpg signature sent from a plain text
> (NOT from firegpg) email through mailman. It needs to be tested
> through both firegpg and regular text email (anyone got a quick link
> to gpg with mutt?).
>
> I sent myself a test message from firegpg to myself and NOT through
> mailman. firgpg then reported it as a good signature. That leads me to
> think the issue _is_ with mailman.
>
> oh joy. criticizing a gnu codebase ....
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse
> <jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:
>         jim.kinney at gmail.com wrote:
>
>         > This is a simple test of firegpg running on Fedora
>         12/Firefox 3.5.5
>         >
>         > Please reply with good or bad signature status.
>         >
>
>
>         gpg command line and output:
>         /usr/bin/gpg
>         gpg: Signature made Sat 28 Nov 2009 11:04:06 AM EST using RSA
>         key ID
>         6A87D3C5
>         gpg: BAD signature from "James P. Kinney III (Physicist,
>         Brewer, Dad)
>         <jimkinney at gmail.com>"
>
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