Re: [Endymail] Improvements to S/MIME

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Sat, 13 September 2014 17:56 UTC

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On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:48, weihaw@google.com said:

> 1) S/MIME doesn't fully protect users mail envelope metadata.  For example
> the recipient and envelope-sender must be visible to the intermediate SMTP

If you want that, it is easy to put the messaqge into a message/rfc822
mail container and use faked subject and other mailer header.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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