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debian merged https://salsa.debian.org/mutt-team/mutt/-/merge_requests/7
to enable autocrypt in mutt by default.

by the time new sources (mutt 2.2.14) are uploaded and/or a new release
is built, this will take effect and ubuntu inherit at least for 25.10
'questing' on next import.


tangentially, on neomutt: it had autocrypt enabled for long in debian/ubuntu, but a regression fixed with version 20250404 made it not work for a time period (atm released up to debian stable backports and ubuntu 'questing').


I was curious where other major distributions (fedora/arch) stand with their mutts to exchange autocrypted mail with each other:

it's only for fedora that has *not* autocrypt enabled yet in mutt. It has for neomutt.
Arch has it for both mutts.

* https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/mutt/-/blob/1901eacfbe555b4377906dbfc5ff5070756c2d58/PKGBUILD
* https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/neomutt/-/blob/44659533c54ccb34ee087f44ceba81c5dfce19a7/PKGBUILD
* https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mutt/blob/76baa05bfb39fe566141b7c7d24262b63d1ef77a/f/mutt.spec
* https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/neomutt/blob/387b0c284ef89db4080e1ddd385ac67ed1718997/f/neomutt.spec

PS: if you use autocrypt, it's best to point $autocrypt_dir to a
separate pgp folder and treat them ephemerally, as in: save mail locally
in cleartext or backup old keys to read old mail.

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Title:
  feature request enable autocrypt

Status in mutt package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  autocrypt is a cryptographic protocol for email clients aiming to simplify key exchange and enabling encryption on basis of OpenPGP. These emails clients have implemented it:
  Thunderbird, Mailpile, Delta Chat Messenger, K-9 Mail and Mutt.

  In order to activate autocrypt in Mutt just following configure option is needed (see attached patch):
  --enable-autocrypt

  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
  Release:        20.04

  2) apt-cache policy mutt
  mutt:
    Installed: 1.13.2-1ubuntu0.2
    Candidate: 1.13.2-1ubuntu0.2

  3) autocrypt support

  4) autocrypt is not supported

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