[Enigmail] Encrypting saved messages

[Olav Seyfarth]

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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.

> 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.

> 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

Olav
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