[Tickets #2670] emails not properly encrypted with gpg

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2670
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 Ticket             | 2670
 Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at mail.curecanti.org>
 Summary            | emails not properly encrypted with gpg
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.0.4-RC2
-State              | Assigned
+State              | Feedback
-Priority           | 3. High
+Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at mail.curecanti.org> (2005-09-27 00:00) wrote:

> Now comes the bug:
> The email is encrypted with your public key and not with the 
> recevier's public key! (The latter were correct.) If he recevied this 
> email, he cannot decrypt it.

I don't think so.  All sorts of people (including me) have been able to send
encrypted mail to third party users without any problems for years now.

> Possible resolutions:
> - Let IMP fetch the public key from public servers.
> - Get the key from address-book entries (gpg will possibly complain 
> about you cannot trust this key, but it should work)
> - Refuse to cypher this email, because you don't have the right key.

... and this is exactly what we do.  Are you confusing the message you are
sending out with any message that is saved in your sent-mail folder? 
Because of course those messages aren't the same.