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Re-enable autocrypt

As we had wired issues with Autocrypt we decided within Tails 3.11 to disable Autocrypt for our users (#15923 (closed)). It leads our users to communicate unencrypted.

Let’s wait for some time and than recheck again, if Autocrypt is good enough for our needs.

So far, what we are missing:

  • If the user already encrypt communication with an other one, this should never fallback to unencrypted communication, when enabling Autocrypt.
  • “encrypt messages by default” should not been overwritten by Autocrypt.
  • Tails enable “Prefer encrypted emails from the people you exchange email with.” to hint Autocrypt to use Encryption.

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Original created by @Hefee on 16477 (Redmine)

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