Hi,

Phil Pennock:
> 4. Get together actual MUA maintainers who are users of the GnuPG
>    code-base in a mailing-list and hammer out details of "what should be
>    done about old mail".  Cryptographers have long said to decrypt
>    inbound mail and re-encrypt it to a storage key, which can
>    periodically be rotated, but AFAIK mail-clients don't have sane ways
>    to do this.

Enigmail, for some time already, adds actions "Decrypt permanently
(Enigmail)" / "Create decrypted copy (Enigmail)" to the Thunderbird
"Tools>Message Filters" menu. It can be used to automatically decrypt
the emails and write them to a separate directory. When archiving
emails, I use those functions to strip OpenPGP (including signatures)
off the emails and store them on a full disk encrypted drive (LUKS).
"Email Archive" in the sense that I do not need it on a daily basis/on a
online system or that there might have been keys used that are already
expired and whose passphrases I did not use for many years and might
have already forgotten etc.
Every year or two I archive the old emails in that way.

Cheers,
~ flapflap

_______________________________________________
enigmail-users mailing list
[email protected]
To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here:
https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net

Reply via email to