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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Two problems with opportunistic encryption
From:       David Bishop <david () bishop ! dhs ! org>
Date:       2002-02-15 20:09:12
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> > 2. When you created a connection between a key and an email address
> > usign the key choose dialog, this connection is not found when the
> > display name changes: In the current case, I've sent a mail to
> > joe@user.org, choose joe@admin.org's key and asked to remember this
> > decision. But when I try to send a message to "Joe User
> > <joe@user.org>", the message will not be encrypted.
>
> I consider this a feature. ;-)
> It behaves this way because the mapping is name-addr -> key and not
> addr-spec -> key. I don't think this is a problem because:
> 1. Most of the time you won't change the display name of a recipient
> very often. In general you'll always use the same display name (or at
> least you should).
> 2. The way it currently is actually allows you to create two (or more)
> display names for different keys with the same email address. But I
> have to admit that I don't know if this is really useful.

Wrt 1, I have a problem with that :-)  Quite often, I *will* send email to 
the same person, with the same address, but have a different "display name". 
The results from either 1) replying to an email from that person, where they 
have set their "display name" to something funky, 2) my just typing in their 
address quickly, so it the "bare name", 3)using the addressbook to add their 
name, where I might have entered it as (yet again!) something different.  And 
this isn't a some-time thing, I have at least 4 or 5 people that I email 
daily that would be affected by this.  And associating their key with each 
different display name would be, uh, painful :-)  (4-5 peple times 3-4 ways 
to represent their address).  

2) sounds interesting, but I just can't think of a time that would be useful 
:-)  As such, I can't really give an opinion....

Thanks!

- -- 
D.A.Bishop
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