[Enigmail] Encrypting saved messages

[Olav Seyfarth]

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Hi David,

> 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.

Enigmail will ask you for a key if you set the default to encrypt all messages.
But it cannot encrypt without the receipient's key.

> 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.

This is what you can influence with the pref extensions.enigmail.saveEncrypted

> And that drafts of emails to recipients that *do have a key* would be saved
> and encrypted. Not *all* drafts.

I see your point. But it's deeper that that. What should happpen with a message
that has two receipients - one with a key and one without? Enigmail will only
decide/ask upon sending (including Outbox), not for saving drafts. If encryption
was set before saving, it will ask you whether to save encryptedly or not. But
it will not do opportunistic encryption.

> 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.

I did not want to offend you. Please keep in mind that I am not a native
speaker.

Olav
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