[imp] PGP encrypt by default -> reply

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von peter.meier at immerda.ch:

> Hi
>
> I'm currently testing an upgrade on our Horde installation. And our
> version for IMP will jump from 4.1.6 to 4.3.2
>
> We have by global default, that emails should be encrypted. Mainly to
> make our users aware of GPG etc.
>
> In our current version if you click on reply to an email, you get the
> message window, you can write your reply and then if you click on send
> the necessary keys are looked up and if not all keys could be found an
> appropriate message is displayed.
>
> However in the new version it looks now like the key lookup already
> happens when clicking on reply. Therefore it can happen that the message
> doesn't appear for a few seconds, as it is looking up the keys on the
> keyserver.
> This is on one way nice as it then changes the settings for encryption
> and displays a message. On the other side it is somehow a bit annoying
> if you have encryption on by default but are replying to someone who
> doesn't have key, or to a list etc.
>
> So is there any reasons why this happens now already when the message
> window opens? Note that you might add/remove addresses while replying,
> so it isn't sure that what imp is looking up first is the final address
> list.
>
> Is this behaviour somehow configurable? I didn't find an option to tweak it.
>
> Any other ideas/hints to avoid/circumvent the long waiting for the
> compose window.
>
> If not at all, do you think that this could easy be made configurable
> and would you be interested in such a patch? Because I think it's fine
> if you don't lookup the keys until sending the message and I could dig
> into the code and make it configurable if you think it's a more or less
> easy fix and that you would be interested in such an option.
> Do you think it should be configurable at all, or wouldn't the old
> behaviour be the preferred one, due to the reasons I outlined above.

See http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/2914 why this has been changed.

Jan.

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