[horde] Problem with PGP encrypted mail and Outlook 2003

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Sun Sep 19 10:02:42 UTC 2010


Why? You're sending a message to yourself, and IMP is using your key  
for that. There's nothing wrong with that.

Zitat von Bill Day <williamson.day at gmail.com>:

> Well, I found my answer.  Horde does not use the gpg keyring; it relies upon
> keys in Turba, apparently.  I did not have myself listed with my work key
> and email address in the address book.  Horde then used my home key to
> encrypt the message as both sender and recipient.  I learned this because I
> forwarded some of the emails that would not decrypt to another account, and
> they started asking me for my password for my home key (the sending key),
> not my work key (the recipient's).  If this behavior is verified, then
> perhaps it would be appropriate to modify IMP slightly so that if it does
> not find a recipient's PGP/GPG key it returns an error rather than trying to
> encrypt to the sender's key.
>
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Bill Day <williamson.day at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For some strange and inexplicable reason, when I send mail from IMP 4.3.7,
>> encrypted with PGP, to Outlook 2003 on an Exchange server and PGP Desktop
>> 10, the message fails to decrypt upon arrival.  The error message is "MAPI
>> Proxy: Decryption aborted".  A message sent from the same machine and the
>> same key with Thunderbird does decrypt, so I do not think that the problem
>> is the key.
>>
>> I realize that this is the Horde list not the Microsoft List, but I
>> wondered if anyone had any insight into something I could tweak on the Horde
>> side.  Besides, Horde developers in my experience are invariably more
>> helpful than Microsoft.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill Day
>>
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>> Bill Day
>> williamson.day at gmail.com
>>
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Jan.

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