Recent "encrypted headers" feature interferes with threaded view
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#712 Recent "encrypted headers" feature interferes with threaded view
Firstly, it's really cool that email headers are now encrypted by enigmail, including the subject. Very nice, thanks for the work!
However one side-effect is that References:/In-Reply-To: headers are now encrypted, meaning Thunderbird can't read these to arrange messages in the same thread together. This persists even after I decrypt the emails.
Optionally, it should be possible for enigmail to store this metadata locally after I decrypt the email once, so that the next time I open up Thunderbird the messages are still grouped together even though they are not decrypted in the current session. Of course this would be a security-vs-convenience tradeoff, but as a user I personally would opt for that convenience.
I'm aware of that issue. Consensus among the authors of the standard is to not protect those headers because of that reason.