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Bug with digitally signed/encrypted emails

Summary:

In Lion, inbound emails that are digitally signed and/or encrypted do not contain any indicators that show that the email is encrypted and that the sender has digitally signed it.

Even worse, if the contents of a digitally signed email have been altered, Mail does not display any warnings that the message has been tampered with.


Steps to Reproduce:

Send an encrypted and digitally signed email. It will be received without any indicators saying it was signed/encrypted. In addition, alter the digitally signed email source with a text editor, and then send the email (using telnet commands) to the mail server. When received, Mail does not warn the user that the email was modified.

Both of these issues were not present in Mail under Snow Leopard


Expected Results:

Digitally signed/encrypted emails should have visual indicators to show it (see screenshot below showing same email in Lion and a different client). In addition, digitally signed emails that were altered must cause mail to warn the user about the tampering.



Actual Results:

Mail does not show that an email is signed/encrypted. Mail does not show that a digitally signed email has been tampered with.


Neither of these two issues were present in the Mail.app in Snow Leopard.


Anyone found a solution....?


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mail-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 11:51 AM

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Dec 5, 2011 10:40 PM in response to ik8sqi2

Bug report filed. "Me too" post as well.


And while we're discussing, anyboy else feel like the "locked" versus "unlocked" lock icon is ridiculously hard to see? It's 2 or 3 pixels difference. Very, very hard to see, especially on the higher density notebook displays. I'd pay for a plugin that turned the lock icon blue when it was set to encrypt.

Apr 5, 2012 2:58 PM in response to ik8sqi2

Running OS X 10.7.3 Apple Mail version 5.2(1257)


My signature and encryption work fine for both incoming and outgoing e-mail. However there is an odd thing I see with e-mail received from Outlook senders.


The e-mail from Outlook 2007 and 2010 show in my Apple Mail as Encrypted,Encrypted. Not as Signed,Encrypted as one would expect. Also in some cases I do not see anything in the header to indicate that the e-mail is Signed or Encrypted, unless I open the e-mail a second time.


On the second attempt to view the e-mail I then can see in the header Encrypted,Encrypted when from Outlook. I only see this behavior when the Sender is using MS Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird.


I hope this bug is addressed as soon as possible.

Bug with digitally signed/encrypted emails

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