thanks for the considerate reply!
i’m not sure i follow your backup idea… the word “backup” is widely used with different mindsets. in my case, a backup only exists if it’s done, and it’s only done if it’s automated. even a real (automated) backup will lose data if it’s scheduled based rather than triggered by data change. it’s, however, conceptually impossible to backup a lost device. i mean something like a fire or complete breaking, lost and unrecoverable.
also, i even tried to imply my emails won’t stay forever on the same mail server… so i’m not sure what you meant in that while paragraph at all!
on a spin-off thought, i think that backup shouldn’t be needed. all the data needed by delta could fit within each email, atomically. so the ideal automated backup would be done seamlessly and flawlessly!
moving on…
true, and if the other email client can speak that same encryption language (like k9 seem to) exporting doesn’t seem to be even needed. i never imported keys there and it can read the encrypted messages… so, perhaps, my main concern here is not really well funded… but the other concerns still appear to be pretty valid.
plus, i still don’t see a good reason to encrypt, at all! this on itself is reason enough for me: to not add unnecessary layers of complexity into anything.
here i was going to just quote @adbenitez from my link:
and i thought it meant autocrypt would always prefer encryption, probably not just in this situation…
but now i just realized this should only happen if i turn it back on!
lol…
i’m so stupid!!
if this will work for zero encryption on my end, that’s all i needed. thanks again for insisting!
i’ll report again after i test it more.