[MlMt] Composed messages saved to a Drafts mailbox in MM v. 6238 and higher not visible on any other devices

[Henry Seiden]

Benny,

Thanks for the interesting explanation and details as regards encryption/signing of messages affecting Drafts in this way. Never considered that as a possibility in terms of sharing the contents of the Drafts folder. Other apps (notably Mail) don’t make that accommodation (nor make the extensive support for PGP or S/MIME signing and encryption that MM does). I would call their support minimal, possibly concerning as security content processing.

Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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On 2 Apr 2025, at 9:14, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 2 Apr 2025, at 13:50, Henry Seiden wrote:
>
>> So, I’m looking for confirmation that this is indeed occurring for all users and for your opinion (assuming you can replicate it) that  you consider this either a bug or some undocumented feature.
>
> It's likely undocumented, but I think I wrote to you in an earlier email that this is expected behavior when signing/encrypting is enabled in the composer window. You can call it a bug if you like, but this is done to ensure that sending a signed or encrypted email from A to B does not involve uploading intermediate unfinished versions of the email. It might be a bit theoretical, but one could imagine different scenarios for which this would be undesirable.
>
> I introduced this restriction when I realized that if encryption failed (e.g., a missing certificate or something like that) then the email would be uploaded unencrypted in its draft-state which was obviously bad. It was not sufficient that MailMate would refuse to send it. In other cases, MailMate could/should allow drafts to be uploaded (at least optionally).
>
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