[MlMt] Warn sending encrypted mail about unencrypted subject

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Wed Jul 16 11:36:48 EDT 2014


On 16 Jul 2014, at 15:41, Brad Knowles wrote:

> ISTR that some clients will auto-replace the unencrypted subject line 
> with the contents of the encrypted subject (and other headers), once 
> the message is decrypted.  And going the other way, they will put in a 
> placeholder like "Encrypted subject" into the envelope subject line, 
> which should get replaced on the other end when the message gets 
> decrypted.
>
> Was it mutt or elm that did this?  Don't remember -- it's been way too 
> long.

Well, let me know if you find a reference to some kind of 
standard/documentation. It's not of much use if MailMate can encrypt 
subjects while receiving email clients cannot decrypt them. For example, 
MailMate never decrypts subject lines…

-- 
Benny


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