[gentoo-user] smime files opened with kmail

[Mick]

Hi All,

I used to be able to decrypt, open and read smime files (pkcs7) with
Kmail 3.5, but with Kmail 4.3 this is not working as expected.  This
is how it used to be:

I would right click on the smime.p7m file and select open with kmail,
which would open a new blank mail message with the smime.p7m file
shown as an attachment.  I would then save the message as draft and
thereafter open it in kmail.  The encrypted smime part would be
readable as an inline attachment in the draft message after I entered
my decryption passphrase.

I have the same kmail settings with KDE4.3, but the draft message
always shows the smime.p7m file as an icon, not inline.  Changing the
preferences in kmail to view attachments as 'smart' or 'inline' makes
no difference.  When I download the smime message from the mail server
with kmail I can decrypt it and read it without a problem - but that's
the only way I can read it.

Trying to decrypt the message directly using Kleopatra gets me an
ascii piece of text (I assume it is mime'd(?) and I can't read it).

Is there some configuration I need to apply to be able to read the
smime.p7m attachment in kmail, or failing that is there a manual way
of decrypting and reading a SSL signed and encrypted message?

PS.  I've also tried using openssl smime -decrypt and it fails with
some indecipherable errors.
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Regards,
Mick