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From: Alain-Pierre Manine <apmanine@idaaas.com>
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To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
	"Patrick Totzke" <patricktotzke@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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Subject: Re: alot: can't read sent emails, after encryption
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:38:33 +0100
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Quoting Jameson Graef Rollins (2013-11-17 20:43:25)
> On Sun, Nov 17 2013, Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Jameson Graef Rollins (2013-11-16 21:47:02)
> >> On Tue, Nov 12 2013, apmanine@idaaas.com wrote:
> >> > I have recently switched to notmuch. Thank you for it!
> >> > I'm using "alot" as a frontend (thank you for it, too!). Everything
> >> > works smoothly, apart from one problem: with alot, I can't figure ou=
t how
> >> > to read encrypted emails I previously sent: they appear to be encryp=
ted
> >> > using the addressee's key.
> >> >
> >> > Is there some way to store encrypted sent emails with my own public =
gpg
> >> > key?
> >> =

> >> What you really want is to tell gpg to always encrypt messages to your
> >> personal key as well, which will always make them viewable by you.  Th=
is
> >> way you don't have to worry about saving unencrypted versions of the
> >> message to disk, or there being two distinct versions of the message
> >> (one encrypted to the recipient and a different one encrypted to you).
> >> =

> >> See the "encrypt-to" gpg option [0].
> >> =

> >> jamie.
> >> =

> >> [0] http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg-devel/GPG-Key-rel=
ated-Options.html
> >
> > Is this how notmuch emacs does it? I mean, is there some option to tell
> > emacs to always call gpg with --encrypt-to=3Dme ?
> > I wonder if I need to change alot in any way or if one can simply globa=
lly configure
> > gnupg.. alot does not call the gpg binary but uses pygpgme.
> =

> You do not need to change alot, just notmuch emacs also doesn't need to
> do anything special to allow for this.  Just add an
> =

> encrypt-to <keyid>
> =

> line to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, where <keyid> is your personal keyid.
> Then all encrypted data is also encrypted to your personal key, making
> it always viewable by you as well.  Then you can just open your
> encrypted sent mail as you would any other encrypted mail.
> =

> jamie.

It's working! Thanks for the explanations.