[Users] New Windows Users: S/MIME

[Luke Robison]

I'm trying to get claws set up on windows specifically because it seems to
have good integration with encryption, but I'm either doing something
wrong, or claws isn't doing what I expected.

First I installed 3.17.3 for win32.  I found the GPG options, and it looked
like it needed a path to gpg, which I didn't have installed.  All signed
and encypted emails just show up as extra attachments in the mail viewer,
so sign that GPG is trying to validate or decrypt anything.

Next I installed gpg4win.  From the command line, I imported my certificate
I had previously used from Thunderbird using gpgsm.  GPG seemed happy.
Then I added a cert for one of my contacts.  GPG still seemed happy.  Then
I decrypted an smime.p7m file I saved from claws again using gpgsm.  Great,
everything works from the command line.

Now back to claws, I'm unsure if I should give claws the GPG path to either
gpgsm.exe or gpg.exe, but neither one has much effect.  Nothing has changed
that I can see for encrypted or signed messages.  No error messages about
bad or missing certificates.  I've selected S/MIME as my preferred
encryption.

Trying to send mail does give errors.  Simply trying to send a signed
message gives a "Secret key not found" error, so I suspect what I'm running
from the command line and what claws is running are two different
programs.  Running with --debug and checking the claws-win32.log file
doesn't do much either, see log excerpt below

Any suggestions?

Luke

procmime.c:2593:procmime_write_mimeinfo
sgpgme.c:590:sgpgme_setup_signers: OpenPGP protocol
sgpgme.c:600:using key for myemail at company.com
warning: setup_signers start: End of filealertpanel.c:253:Creating alert
panel dialog...
alertpanel.c:211:called inc_lock (lock count 2)
alertpanel.c:221:called inc_unlock (lock count 1)
compose.c:5407:called inc_unlock (lock count 0)
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