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Re: wl-fcc vs encrypted mails



At Sun, 08 Sep 2013 14:36:21 +0200,
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 13:49 +0200, Michael Welle wrote:
> > I utilise wl-fcc to store a copy of every mail I sent in an IMAP
> > folder. A drawback is that encrypted mails are stored, well,
> > encrypted. As a consequence that email's content can't be retrieved by
> > me anymore. How do you deal with this problem? What about storing the
> > mail in clear text and add an additional header indicating that this
> > mail was sent encrypted?
> 
> Regarding to security mails that were sent encrypted, should also be
> stored encrypted. I know similar pseudo-issues using other MUAs and
> sometimes another level of security is needed, IOW it would be ok to
> sent mails encrypted, but then to store them decrypted, but for good
> reasons this shouldn't be a default for any MUA. Why can't you decrypt
> your own mails?
> 

+1 -- My solution is simple: I always encrypt to myself.

Best,
  -- David
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