On 4.7.2019 15.35, mabi via dovecot wrote: > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, July 4, 2019 11:17 AM, @lbutlr via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> > wrote: > >>> Is it possible to delete the inactive keypair? if yes how? >> Wouldn’t you then be unable to *unencrypt* previous emails? > That's also what I thought but based on my understand and on the > documentation of the "mailbox cryptokey generate" doveadm command > (https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailCrypt#doveadm_mailbox_cryptokey_generate) > if you use the "-R" parameter you re-encrypt all the mails with the new key. > See the description of that "-R" parameter: > > -R - Re-encrypt all folder keys with current active user key > > Someone please correct me here if I am wrong... >
Actually -R will re-encrypt all folder keys with new user key. After this, old user key can be removed. Re-encrypting mails can only be done by moving them around. Never ever delete an old **folder** key unless you are really sure it's not used by anything anymore. Aki
