Email client for Linux which can store GPG messages decrypted
While I never used a GUI email client which does that, you can use mutt
[ which is a CLI email client ], and which has two useful commands:
-
decrypt-copy
-> Lets you save the decrypted contents of an email to a file -
decrypt-save
-> Does adecrypt-copy
then deletes the email
These two commands are unbound by default, but you can bind them with the bind command, e.g.:
bind pager <F5> decrypt-copy
bind pager <F6> decrypt-save
Would make F5 do a decrypt-copy
and F6 do a decrypt-save
KMail supposedly has a setting for this. However, the documentation is ambiguous as to whether it actually works:
Symptom: You exchange encrypted mail with a friend, but would like to store it unencrypted, once you have opened the message.
Solution: To store emails that have been decrypted once in unencrypted format henceforth, add this to your kmailrc configuration file, in the [Reader] section:
store-displayed-messages-unencrypted=true
This may only work with SMIME but implementation for OpenPgP is being worked on.