Re: encrypting replies to encrypted mail

Subject: Re: encrypting replies to encrypted mail

Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:21:04 -0800

To: Nicolás Reynolds, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jameson Graef Rollins


On Sun, Jan 12 2014, Nicolás Reynolds <fauno@kiwwwi.com.ar> wrote:
> Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:
>
>> Hi, folks.  I've been worried for a while about the fact that my notmuch
>> mua (notmuch-emacs) does not automatically encrypt replies to encrypted
>> messages.  Recently my fears came true when I accidentally sent in the
>> clear a reply to an encrypted message that include a full quote of the
>> original encrypted text.  This is obviously not ok, to the extent that I
>> would like to now consider this a UI bug in notmuch-emacs.
>
> i solved this by using jl-encrypt.el that asks me if i want to encrypt
> an email if the identities i'm writing to are on my keyring :)

This is certainly a reasonable approach, and is in fact what is outlined
in the "Default Encrypt" link I provided.  However, I still feel it
would be good to automatically encrypt replies to encrypted messages by
default, without needing to prompt the user.

jamie.
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