Quoting Jameson Graef Rollins (2013-11-17 20:43:25) > On Sun, Nov 17 2013, Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com> wrote: > > Quoting Jameson Graef Rollins (2013-11-16 21:47:02) > >> On Tue, Nov 12 2013, apmanine@idaaas.com wrote: > >> > I have recently switched to notmuch. Thank you for it! > >> > I'm using "alot" as a frontend (thank you for it, too!). Everything > >> > works smoothly, apart from one problem: with alot, I can't figure out how > >> > to read encrypted emails I previously sent: they appear to be encrypted > >> > using the addressee's key. > >> > > >> > Is there some way to store encrypted sent emails with my own public gpg > >> > key? > >> > >> What you really want is to tell gpg to always encrypt messages to your > >> personal key as well, which will always make them viewable by you. This > >> way you don't have to worry about saving unencrypted versions of the > >> message to disk, or there being two distinct versions of the message > >> (one encrypted to the recipient and a different one encrypted to you). > >> > >> See the "encrypt-to" gpg option [0]. > >> > >> jamie. > >> > >> [0] http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg-devel/GPG-Key-related-Options.html > > > > Is this how notmuch emacs does it? I mean, is there some option to tell > > emacs to always call gpg with --encrypt-to=me ? > > I wonder if I need to change alot in any way or if one can simply globally configure > > gnupg.. alot does not call the gpg binary but uses pygpgme. > > You do not need to change alot, just notmuch emacs also doesn't need to > do anything special to allow for this. Just add an > > encrypt-to <keyid> > > line to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, where <keyid> is your personal keyid. > Then all encrypted data is also encrypted to your personal key, making > it always viewable by you as well. Then you can just open your > encrypted sent mail as you would any other encrypted mail. > > jamie. It's working! Thanks for the explanations.