Bad signs when GMail reflows the email

[stefano-maggiolo]

It seems that cr-gpg makes the signature on the message before gmail reflows long lines. In an email I sent, I got a bad signature that became good again when I checked it with gpg after removing the newlines that gmail inserted.

I don't know what would be a nice solution to this - implementing a reflowing algorithm similar to gmail's is subject to errors and to changes in gmail, but asking the user to format the email by himself is also burdensome. Maybe a warning for long lines (>72 char) would be a good starting point...

[RC1140]

Hi Stefano
Yeah this is a tricky issue since as you mentioned you cant really change a persons email. I do have a idea how it could be solved thanks to some of the work that was done recently for detached sig verification.

If it possible to send me a example of a mail that would fail verification so that I can confirm if my fixes work or not. My contact address is jameel at thinkst dot com

Thanks for brining this to my attention.

[stefano-maggiolo]

Sent privately.

Thinking about it, maybe the best sub-optimal solution to me is implementing a "Reflow" button that does it (plus warning for long lines) - but it has to be manual, not automatic.