Patrick Brunschwig

The "prefer encrypt" option in Enigmail is called "Prefer encrypted emails from the people you exchange email with."

You mean the checkmark for prefer-encrypt? It enables the "prefer-encrypt" part in the header. In my eyes, there is nothing more that this checkbox is currently meant for. However, Enigmail...

@dkg No, I don't think so. As you know, Enigmail already has a per-account setting for whether or not to encrypt messages by default. That value defines my own prefer-encrypt...

> What is Enigmail doing if the user has not made a concrete setting for a peer? Maybe it is possible to set and use the internal accounts[addr].prefer_encrypt for these...

I get the impression that you try to interpret something into Autocrypt in Enigmail that clashes with what is available today. In other words, Enigmail already has about 10 different...