Hello all,
Does anyone have any tips on how to simplify moving my Thunderbird email
files from my old PC to my new PC?
I have gotten as far as setting up the new PC with a Thunderbird account
and now I can view new emails both on the old PC and the new one but I'm
stuck and can't quite figure how exactly to get the old email files to
the new PC. The Mozilla support site mentions a wizard but its not on
Windows 10. Any advice is appreciated.
Marcus
On 3/25/2016 1:08 PM, flapflap wrote:
Patrick Brunschwig:
On 25.03.16 12:03, flapflap wrote:
Hi,
(using Enigmail 1.8.2 from Debian stable)
For some time already, Enigmail provides Message Filters that allow the
user to permanently decrypt a message or to create an encrypted copy of
a message.
That is quite a nice feature for my long term email archive which is
stored on encrypted disk.
However, I noted that using these filters emails are not only decrypted
but also the signature (if available) is stripped. I know this affects
PGP/MIME emails but I didn't test Inline PGP.
o Is it possible to keep a signature after decryption?
o Or is this an inherent property of PGP/MIME/Inline PGP emails, that
the email cannot be /only/ encrypted?
(Of course I meant "decrypted" here)
It depends on the used protocol. If mails are signed and encrypted in
two steps (RF 3156, section 6.1), then Enigmail would only remove the
encryption, but leave the signature intact.
However, Enigmail and many other mail clients use the "combined" method.
That is, mails are signed and encrypted in one step. This case, there is
no extra signature. In theory it should be possible to extract the
signature from the encrypted data, and re-create a signed message from
it. However, GnuPG does not offer functionality to extract a signature
from a signed+encrypted message, and it's not likely that such
functionality will ever be implemented [1].
Although not what I would have ultimately liked to hear, but absolutely
reasonable and something I can live with.
Thanks!
~flapflap
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