[Enigmail] official protocol for external helper program

[Andrzej Filip]

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Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>> Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>>> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>>>> Is there any chance for enigmail to support some official protocol for
>>>> messages signing/encrypting and verification of message signature?
>>>> I have asked for support of "X-PGP-Sig:" but I will be happy to use more
>>>> general solution.
>>>> [e.g. execute external program, feed it XML via its stdin, read XML it
>>>> produces via stdout and error/report via stderr.
>>> There are a few add-ons for Mozilla available that deal in general with
>>> reading/writing complete messages (i.e. incl. headers), however AFAIK
>>> there is none that would offer a generic interface to just feed data to
>>> stdout and read something from stdin. The main problem is that this is a
>>> particularly difficult task to do in Thunderbird, and only very few
>>> people know how to do it at all.
>>> -Patrick
>> Is there another "communication protocol/method" better fitted to
>> Thunderbird architecture/limitations?
> 
> No, there isn't. There is no limitation of Thunderbird in this area, the
> problem is just that creating an extension for tasks like the one you
> would like to accomplish is difficult, and thus so far only a few people
> dared to make the effort.
> 
> -Patrick

So you have asked for one more final (re)try. :-)

On my installation I can filter/rewrite messages before Thunderbird has
a chance to see them. Is there any "after rewriting format" that can
make Thunderbird capable to display x-pgp-sig "verified OK"/"broken
signature"?

[ x-pgp-sig sign  signs message body (usually text/plain) and a few
chosen headers.

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[pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi at priv.onet.pl : anfi at xl.wp.pl
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