[Users] Can't decrypt my PGP-mail

[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:50:01 +0100
Andreas Meyer wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Andrej Kacian <ticho at claws-mail.org> schrieb am 30.01.18 um 04:44:22
> Uhr:
> 
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 03:46:05 +0100
> > Andreas Meyer <anmeyer at mailbox.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > I just was sending an encrypted answer to an encrypted email I got
> > > but when try to read the answer I sent one more time in the sent
> > > folder I can't decrypt it.
> > > 
> > > What's wrong?    
> > 
> > Do you have "Encrypt sent messages with your own key in
> > addition to recipient's" checkbox enabled on Privacy page in account
> > preferences?  
> 
> No, this is not enabled. I remembeer the email I got from the partner
> was encrypted with another key than the emailaddress it was sent to
> finally. Maybe this has something to do with it?

You will only be able to decrypt messages where the relevant private
key is in your key ring, so I doubt it would affect things.

It's perfectly fine to encrypt to yourself provided that you can accept
the additional security effects of doing so. It's not a good idea if
you *really* only want the addressee (or more accurately the key owner)
to be able to decrypt it.

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Brian Morrison