Re: wl-fcc vs encrypted mails

[Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net>]

At Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:50:36 +0200,
Michael Welle wrote:
> 
> 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.

Would kind of defeat the purpose of having a private key, no??

In light of recent NSA & Snowden events and quantum computing... it's
probably a moot point anyhow :(

Best-- Ken