[Vagrant Cascadian] Bug#759646: notmuch-emacs: switching mode= to invalid value sends unencrypted mail

[David Bremner]

David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Tomi Ollila wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/30/2014 03:37 AM, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>>> I'm inclined to think this is a bug in message-mode. 
>>>
>>> I agree it's a bug in message-mode, not in notmuch itself.
>>
>> I think it might be here:
>>
>> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/emacs-24/annotate/head:/lisp/gnus/mml.el#L258
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>> If cond does not match, then don't fail...
>
> This looks to have been fixed in emacs at the end of September 2014.

Right, this fix was released in emacs 24.4

I'm a little torn what to do here. On the one hand the upstream change
fixes the bug as reported. On the other hand, if something corrupts the
#secure tag (e.g., by deleting a letter), then the message is still sent
un-uncrypted.

d