203928 - if I send digitally signed mail and attach signature (ascii) file mail is not properly signed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Luca Cadonici]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; it-IT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; it-IT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

if I put an ASCII file for signature and I digitally sign that mail the people
who receives the mail see that "the digital signature is invalid" "The signature
does not match the message correctly. The messagew seems to be altered after the
sender digitally signs it"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in mail account settings select a sinature for mails
2. compose a new mail
3. digitally sign it
4. send to yourself the mail (or other people)

Actual Results:  
you will receive a mail with an error in signature:
"the digital signature is invalid" "The signature does not match the message
correctly. The messagew seems to be altered after the sender digitally signs it"..

Expected Results:  
The mail, like when i doesn't attach a signature, should arrive with a valid
digital signature

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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