[Kde-pim] Kmail consideration of Authenticated-Results RFC5451

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi Daniel,

On Saturday 10 October 2009 11:25:35 Daniel Black wrote:
> I'm considering the possible implementation of bug 204712[1]. Relating to
>  the user display of Authenticated Results headers. Fresh on the tail of
>  other display work I though I'd try to get a reasonable display consensus
>  idea up front. As per the security requirements of RFC5451 7.1 only those
>  authserv-id tokens configured by the user are going to be fully trusted.
> 
> Q1 should the domain(s) of the user's identity(ies) be included by default?
> 
> As per Ingo's and other's preference for minimal headers I'm considering
>  just some a green stylish tick for pass results, a blue box for neutral
>  results, and red cross for failed results and a blue broken box icon for
>  errors to represent the results.
> 
> These icons could be displayed after the From email address on the same
>  line. The icons would contain tool tips of the result interpretation.
> 
> Authenticated results headers not from the user's trusted authserv-id could
>  be displayed in grey potentially with a 'not trusted' tag on the tool tip.
> 
> A context menu to add/remove to the trusted authserv-ids and to disable the
> display of untrusted authserv-ids.
> 
> Q2 does this sound reasonable?
> 
> Any other comments?

This sounds very reasonable, icons with tooltips and a context menu is a good 
idea.
Regarding the actual authentication, I have not read the RFC yet so I can't 
comment on this part.

Regards,
Thomas
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