Bug 24902 - pine's filters fail to properly encrypt mail sent to multiple recipients (using gpg)
Summary: pine's filters fail to properly encrypt mail sent to multiple recipients (usi...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 21271
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: pine
Version: 7.0J
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-01-25 02:18 UTC by Stiphane Doyon
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-01-25 02:18:37 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2001:042 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE : Updated pine packages available 2001-03-31 05:00:00 UTC

Description Stiphane Doyon 2001-01-25 02:18:33 UTC
Interaction between pine and gnupg: pine sending-filters (see /etc/pine.conf) and /usr/bin/pinegpg.
gpg-encrypt and gpg-sign+encrypt -> pinegpg are called by pine as filters with the mail addresses of the recipients on the command-line. gpg is supposed to encrypt the message for these recipients.
But the filter command and pinegpg script do not call gpg correctly: there should be a -r option for each recipient, but only one is given.
Example: mail to addresses addr1 and addr2 should call gpg -at -e -r addr1 -r addr2. Currently, the second -r is missing.
So gpg thinks the second and following addresses are filenames. The error message thus produced (something like "no such file or directory") is not easily interpreted in the context by a user who has not read the script...

This basically prevents sending encrypted mail to more than one recipient.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-01-28 18:37:43 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21271 ***


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