OpenKeychain and saving drafts in K-9 Mail does not work

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Device: Samsung Galaxy A53
OS: Android 13 / OneUI 5.0
K-9 Mail: 6.400
OpenKeychain: 5.7.5 (57500)

K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain are exempted from Battery Optimization and are not in Standby or Deep Standby.

I have read New install, cannot send, cannot connect to encryption service? - #2 by kjo and How do I make K-9 Mail work with OpenKeychain on Xiaomi's MIUI?.

I activated OpenPGP support in K-9 Mail with standard settings for my one and only E-Mail Account.

After composing a draft (only a few letters, no E-Mail address or subject entered) and hitting save I get an error message “Verbindung zum Verschlüsselungsdienst fehlgeschlagen…” (see also screenshot).

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This error is reproducible. On Android 12 the error seemed to come up only in case K-9 Mail was opened via the share menu from Android or when an E-Mail Address was clicked on a website in Firefox for Android. On Android 13 the error is always triggered when saving a draft.

I can decrypt messages without an issue, the general setup seems to be OK.

Any help to solve the issue or confirmation of the issue is highly appreciated.

Thank you!

wurstsemmel

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You should be able to work around this bug by adding a recipient. You can remove that recipient again before saving the message as a draft.

We’ll hopefully get around to fixing this bug for the next major version.

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If you choose an identity for your mail adresse it can save drafts under the key for your identity.

Regards