[MlMt] Warn sending encrypted mail about unencrypted subject
Luca Allodi
luca.allodi at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 12:58:34 EDT 2014
I may be wrong but aren't subject lines public by definition, like user names? Think indexing and archiving.
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> Il giorno 16/lug/2014, alle ore 16:36, "Benny Kjær Nielsen" <mailinglist at freron.com> ha scritto:
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>> On 16 Jul 2014, at 15:41, Brad Knowles wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Was it mutt or elm that did this? Don't remember -- it's been way too long.
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> 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…
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