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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#12015: Whishes and "almost" bugs :-)
From:       Andreas Gungl <a.gungl () gmx ! de>
Date:       2000-09-28 19:26:05
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On Don, 28 Sep 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> > Package: kmail
> > Version: 1.1.94 (KDE 1.94 >= 20000911)
> >
> > Today I sent an email with an attachment on it which should stay
> > confidential. So I choose to encrypt my message. The result was that
> > the contents of the message ("Hi, here is the secret file!") was
> > encrypted, but the file itself was sent over the net in plaintext. Uck,
> > this was really not what I expected! There should be at least a warning
> > before sending the mail or attaching the file...
>
> This is standard behavior, not just for KMail but also for other mail
> clients too. But I think we agree that in a perfect world attachments
> should be encrypted.

Nice wish, maybe it can work on it after the freeze.

> > And now to some nice ideas some of the people here would really like!
> >
> > If you consider your computer system a safe place, holding the mail
> > encrypted on your computer is not really neccessary any more.
>
> (This is sometimes, but not always true, it depends on the person).
>
> > Encrypting is
> > then only a way to protect it on the way between the systems. So how
> > about an option to "convert" an encrypted mail to a plaintext mail? You
> > can handle them much nicer then.
>
> Well you can forward them to yourself. (If you don't want to send them
> over the network you can queue them and then move them to your inbox).

Another way to handle this: Use the filter action "execute" for those 
messages. The output of the called external program will replace the body 
of your message.
Try e.g. pgp as external program.

> > Another thing is that normally you don't compress the files you are
> > working with. But if you send them as an attachment over a slow
> > connection you normally like to reduce their size. So instead of
> > switching programs, creating a compressed file, switching back to kmail
> > and attaching the compressed file it would be much nicer to have the
> > option of compressing the file when attaching it. Wouldn't this be a
> > nice feature?
>
> I understand.
>
> > Greetings and thanx for this really nice mail program!
>
> Thanks,
> Don.

Andreas
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