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From: nmeum <nmeum@users.noreply.github.com>
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: [ISSUE] Handling of encrypted PGP/MIME multipart messages
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 21:53:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gh-mailinglist-notifications-fa6558a0-26e0-48f6-803f-f5a8af34f6a8-mblaze-175@inbox.vuxu.org> (raw)

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New issue by nmeum on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/175

Description:
I recently noticed that `contrib/mpgp` doesn't seem to handle encrypted PGP/MIME multipart messages well. For instance, consider an encrypted PGP/MIME messages which consists of text + attachments (e.g. tarballs). Since `mpgp` is a filter it does not seem to be possible to extract  attachments from such a message (e.g. through `mshow -x`) or at least, I didn't manage to do so.

In case anybody else is encountering this issue, I wrote myself the following script (`mshowpgp`) which I use instead of `mpgp`:

```shell
#!/bin/sh
# Decryptes current mblaze (PGP/MIME) message.
set -e

# See ENVIRONMENT section in mseq(1).
MBLAZE="${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}"
MAILCUR="${MAILCUR:-$MBLAZE/cur}"

n=$(mshow -t | awk -F: '
	/: application\/pgp-encrypted/ {supported = 1}
	/: application\/octet-stream/ {if (supported) { print $1; exit }}')

if [ "$n" ]; then
	mshow -n -O "$MAILCUR" "$n" | gpg --decrypt | mshow -n /dev/stdin "$@"
	exit 0
else
	echo "Current mblaze message is not PGP/MIME encrypted" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi
```

If the current message is PGP/MIME encrypted its attachments can be extracted using `mshowpgp -x` as usual. The script also illustrates some shortcomings of `mshow`:

1. There doesn't seem to be any portable way of reading messages from standard input (iirc `/dev/stdin` is not specified by POSIX).
2. If `mshow -x` or `mshow -O` is used it does not seem to be possible to use the current message without explicitly specifying its path.

If there is any way to extract attachments with the `mpgp` filter please let me know.

             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-16 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-16 19:53 nmeum [this message]
2020-05-16 20:03 ` leahneukirchen
2020-05-16 20:05 ` leahneukirchen
2020-05-17  8:34 ` [ISSUE] [CLOSED] " nmeum
2020-05-23 13:35 ` leahneukirchen
2020-05-23 15:10 ` nmeum
2023-02-12 13:13 ` xelxebar

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