Evolution - reply to an encrypted message

[David Fletcher]

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 07:34 +0930, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 19:27 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> > When I receive an encrypted message from a certain friend, Evolution
> > decrypts and displays the message. When I try to reply to his message
> > though, in the reply window the original text from him appears to
> > revert to cipher text, something like this:-
> 
> I use crypto a lot, and Evolution has done this for a long time. There
> appear to be several legal ways to encrypt stuff, and while Evolution
> can display most of them, it appears to only be able to
> reply/forward-inline some of them.
> 
> What I do as a workaround is use Edit->Select all, then click Reply -
> the selected text will be quoted, unencrypted, in the new message.
> 
> Interestingly, the latest version of Evolution that I'm using (2.30.3 on
> 10.10) doesn't reply properly to three out of four ordinary
> *unencrypted* messages either, though I don't imagine it's related.
> Instead it shows the quote introduction, followed by - nothing. No
> quoted text. This appears to have something to do with the format of the
> message being replied to, and I have to use the same workaround.
> 
> And a completely new issue (to me): When I double click in the taskbar
> calendar to enter a new appointment, the calendar window opens on the
> previous day! Absolutely repeatable.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 

Thanks for letting me know that I'm not alone in having this problem.

I've got the same version on 10.10 as you have, but don't have problems
with replies to unencrypted email! I have found a problem with selecting
a particular email address from the automatic drop down selector with a
new message though.

The main reason I'm using Evolution rather than Thunderbird is that I
was able to fairly easily import all my contacts information from kmail
via what appears to be a fairly standardised format file. My email is
all delivered to and kept as maildir on my server and accessed with IMAP
so as far as my email is concerned it really doesn't matter which client
I use. So, if anybody can suggest how to reliably transfer all my
contacts from Evolution to Thunderbird, I guess I'd prefer to use
something that doesn't have so many bugs.

Dave