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Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?



Rob Owens:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:48:52PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
>> Rob Owens:
>>> 
>>> I just verified that I can search the contents of emails in Mutt and
>>> only enter my GPG passphrase once.  There were multiple encrypted emails
>>> in my inbox when I tested this.  
>> 
>> The problem is that mutt's search doesn't use an index. Searching
>> message bodies is painfully slow this way. I usually do server-side
>> search via IMAP, but that doesn't work for encrypted mails at all.
>> 
> I have all my messages on my ISP's IMAP server.  I don't have anything
> but headers cached locally.  I was able to search with Mutt.  But it was
> kind of slow.  I assume that behind the scenes it downloads each message
> to a temporary file (or RAM) and searches it that way.

Exactly. I guess mutt is smart enough to perform local header checks
first and only downloads the remaining messages to search their bodies,
but that's still a problem if those messages have attachments.

J.
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