I recently sent an encrypted email via Enigmail to a friend who does all
his crypto from the command line using gpg directly.  He remarked that:

> I got your message. However, it was sent as an encrypted
> attachment in a blank MIME message. The message was not
> marked with the property "encrypted."

I did a View Message Source on the message and saw a lot of headers and
such which suggest that Enigmail is not simply encrypting the message,
the way I would do manually with a command such as:

gpg -o - -e -r [email protected] -r [email protected] -a

In the message I saw elaborate headers such as:

From: [email protected]
Subject: test
Openpgp: preference=signencrypt
Autocrypt: [email protected];
prefer-encrypt=mutual;
 keydata=
 xsFNBFVTu9wBEAD3HrqNmAU5TPesso2t7QG+bq/Y9Brz0X...


And this:

Content-Type: multipart/encrypted;
 protocol="application/pgp-encrypted";


And then FINALLY this:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hQIMA6Lhji0Goz+pAQ//RxnH969Jij+H9eupX698NC//p1PWVxDD2L9l0nruAKwz
...

-----END PGP MESSAGE-----




I was hoping there was a way for Enigmail just to compose a plain
message with nothing but the "PGP" block, and no "Openpgp" or
"Autocrypt" anything at the top.

I actually tried disabling Enigmail "for this identity" entirely, and
just doing the message manually, but that only worked for my default
identity.  If I chose a different identity, Enigmail inserted those
Autocrypt headers even when I was sending a plain text email!


-- Patrick

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