Comment 5 for bug 1013341

Arik, those changes to the docs are helpful.

I don't have any great ideas about where to put the success/failure messages. At the top where you have them seems okay. I've also seen them next to the signature. Making a new subwindow visible with the status is an option, too (kind of how thunderbird + enigmail does it) - similar to the bbdb subwindow. Coloring them green / red to highlight the status might help certainly.

By the way, another cause of the 'undefined smime-verify-buffer' problem I originally reported is that there could be a version of smime.el that doesn't have smime-verify-buffer. The emacs package semi has a smime.el but no smime-verify-buffer as of version 1.14.6). This isn't a huge issue - it looks like semi's smime.el is a subset of gnus/smime.el. But I thought I'd get it in writing since I just hit that problem.

In trying this out again, I did see some problems, but I'll open separate bugs for those.

[ aside: would be great to support pgp/mime, too - presumably using EasyPG Assistant - epa.el - for both signing/sig verification and content encryption/decryption. This is a note to self mostly - I did some investigation, but I won't be able to work on it right away ]