search encrypted mail

cm100 · 2010-01-23 21:50:22

Hi!

I already posted this question in the german archlinux forum (https://forum.archlinux.de/?id=20;page= … read=14936). Unfortunately I received no answer, so I try it in the english forum.

At the moment I use thunderbird 2.0 as email-client and enigmail (i.e. gpg) to encrypt messages. The problem is that the thunderbird "search messages" function (Shift + f OR Edit-->Find--> Search messages) cannot handle encrypted messages. For example if I want to find all messages which body text contains "string" thunderbird finds only those messages which are not encrypted and contains "string", but not the encrypted ones.

I already wrote a small bash script which extracts all encrypted messages of a thunderbird inbox file and writes them decrypted into a new thunderbird inbox file. So in principle I can decrypt them all and then search for a certain string. But that is very uncomfortable because over and over new encrypted messages arrive.

So I have the following questions:

1) Does somebody know an email client for linux which can search for encrypted emails? Or in which you can easily add such an feature.

"The Bat" (for windows) can do this (at least in some versions). But under wine it runs not so stable, so I don't want to use it.

2) Is there a way to make thunderbird store emails unencrypted (after I decrypted and read it)?

3) Are there other suggestions to solve this problem?

Thanks!

cm100

graysky · 2010-01-23 22:34:41

I've been using enigmail + tbird and haven't found a solution to the problem.

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#1 2010-01-23 21:50:22

search encrypted mail

#2 2010-01-23 22:34:41

Re: search encrypted mail

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