Apple Mail Stores Encrypted Emails in Plain Text Database, fix included!

Bob Gendler
Nov 6 · 8 min read

I was investigating how macOS and Siri suggest contacts and information to you, the user. This led me to the process called suggestd, run by the system level LaunchAgent com.apple.suggestd, and the Suggestions folder in the user-level Library folder, which contains multiple files and some potentially important database files (.db files). These are databases with…

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Bob Gendler

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IT Specialist in the Apple world. Jamf guru, wizard of Mac Management, and mastermind of Apple trivia. The views are my own and not the views of my employer.

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