Re: [nmh-workers] Additional features for S/MIME support

[Alexander Zangerl]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 21:24:00 -0400, Ken Hornstein writes:
>Oh, there is one additional
>bit of tooling I think is necessary: being able to specify the "raw" contents
>of a multipart part when CREATING a message.

yes.

># This is a hypothetical syntax for including "pre-formed" multipart content
>echo '#!<' >> /tmp/newdraft.$$
>cat /tmp/body.$$ >> /tmp/newdraft.$$
>echo "#application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s {attachment; 
>filename=smime.p7s} /tmp/signdata.$$" >> /tmp/newdraft.$$
>echo "#end" >> /tmp/newdraft.$$

i think telling mhbuild to ignore directives for pre-formed stuff will need 
need both 'start verbatim here'
and 'stop verbatim here' markers, or you won't be able to attach the crypto 
signature or end the outermost
multipart... maybe something like shell here document delimiters?

>Does that make sense?

thanks, yes, that clarifies things.

>What you would do with PGP/GPG is pretty close to that, I think.

the mime types are different but that's pretty much it. (i feel confident 
claiming that because
i wrote an outgoing automatic signer-or-encrypter for pgp/mime a while ago; see 
http://snafu.priv.at/mystuff/kuvert/ for details)

regards
az


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