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mtgx on Jan 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lavabit Reloaded

Also search that only uses email titles is still at least 70% as useful as full title+body search. So I wouldn't count this as such a terrible non-feature of e2e encrypted email.

EdHominem on Jan 20, 2017 [–]

Only if you leave juicy content in the unencrytped subject.

Also, "What? subjects and recipients are unencrypted!?" -- Every User Ever

sdenton4 on Jan 21, 2017 | [–]

You can encrypt the metadata on the server, and enable local search on the metadata to avoid keeping the full mailbox on a phone, for example

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