Re: wl-fcc vs encrypted mails

[Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>]

Hallo,

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
sure, the filesystems on the mail server are encrypted as well as the
connections.


> 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?
Because I need the private key of the recipient to decrypt the
mail. And for some reason she don't want to give the key to me.

Regards
hmw


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