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23.4; message-mode quietly saves plaintext in draft folder (potentially remote IMAP servers)

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>
Cc: 19585 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19585: 23.4; message-mode quietly saves plaintext in draft folder (potentially remote IMAP servers)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:13:54 +0100

Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name> writes:

> i have a gmail+gnus setup. when a message is marked to be encrypted in
> message-mode (with a <#secure ...> tag) then drafts of the message end
> up being saved quietly in cleartext to the gmail drafts folder.
>
> i propose to change the defaults so that drafts are either saved
> encrypted (to the sender as recipient, so that it can be decrypted for
> further editing), or at least a warning should be shown to the user
> before saving the message in cleartext.

Yes, that would seem to be unwanted behaviour.  Does anybody who knows
more about the encrypted mail part have any idea how to fix this problem?

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