[Tickets #12952] Re: PGP/MIME signed message with user signature fails in thunderbird

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Ticket URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/12952
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  Ticket             | 12952
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | PGP/MIME signed message with user signature fails in
                     | thunderbird
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 6.1.6
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2014-09-24 18:23) wrote:

> Anyway, I still think that this should be fixed in Horde. Sometimes  
> it is not possible to update php on managed servers

There are two alternatives:

1.) Update PHP.  The issue has been fixed.  This requires no further  
development work.

2.) Write a new quoted-printable encoding backend.  Not only would  
this be *many* times less efficient than the PHP C-based version, but  
it is unneeded (see #1), but it would require significant developer  
resources to do something that has already been fixed.

If someone wants to pay me to do option 2, I would gladly do it.  I  
don't see how it is my (or anybody else's) responsibility to do this  
though when the issue has already been fixed the correct way (option  
1).  (see, e.g., the current releases of PHP, which have totally  
broken SSL behavior.  The correct resolution is to fix PHP, not for us  
to try to workaround this behavior)