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

[David Edmondson]

On Sat, Nov 29 2014, David Bremner wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> (it takes time to load, please wait...)
>>>
>>> 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.

I'm unclear on what you mean. Is it that "upgrade to 24.4" is not a good
enough answer, because we are still leaving pre-24.4 people out in the
cold?