[Enigmail] Encrypting saved messages

[David]

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On 7/13/2009 8:59 AM, Olav Seyfarth wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
>> The line   extensions.enigmail.saveEncrypted   is set to  1  if I have
>> my email address settings set to sign and encrypt every draft or email
>> that is saved or sent even if the recipient does not have a key. Since
>> it asks for *my* passpharse when saving I assume that it uses my key.
> 
> Not 100% correct: Enigmail/GnuPG cannot encrpyt to someone you don't have
> the public key from. Enigmail asking yor your passphrase is beecause you
> set it to *sign* all your outgoing mail.


Sir: When I have all four checkboxes marked

Sign-non-encrypted
Sign encrypted
Encrypt messages by default
Use PGP/MIME

*or*  just

Encrypt messages by default    marked

Thunderbird/Enigmail will save a draft email to any and all recipients
encrypted. Even if the recipient does *not* have a key. Enigmail *does*
ask for a key when the draft is loaded and a 'send' is selected.


>> This does however offer me the opportunity to create a per-recipient
>> rule before sending an encrypted email to a recipient that can not
>> decrypt it.
> 
> Per receipient rules are necessary if a receipient (here: one email address)
> has more than one encryption key (residing in one ore more main keys) and if
> you write to a group of people (a mailing list) that you want all individual
> receipients be be able to decrypt. Of to set Enigmail to not or always sign
> or encrypt to somebody. The per receipient rules are applied last (when
> sending) so they are not meant to set defaults.


Which is as I expected. But what I had thought that I would see was that
drafts of emails to recipients that *do not have a key* would be saved
and *not* encrypted. And that drafts of emails to recipients that *do
have a key* would be saved and encrypted. Not *all* drafts.


>> It is not exactly what I had expected. I was thinking of a system that
>> would only encrypt emails to recipients whose keys I have in my keyring.
> 
> Maybe http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/advanced.php#keySel is what
> you are looking for. You must enable "Display expert settings" in Enigmail
> basic preferences: http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/basic.php


I am in no way an expert with Enigmail. But I have been a user for
several years. I thought that I had this working the way I described
above at one time. But I must be mistaken.

Thank you again.
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  David



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