130382 - Add GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) support to Mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22687

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Adam Masri]

Platform: PowerBook G3/300/192Mb/48Gb, MacOS X 10.1.3
Fizzilla 0.9.9

I'd like to see Mozilla directly support GNU Privacy Guard (gpg). It would be
awesome if key signing, encrypting, and decrypting functions were built directly
into Mozilla. Although gpg itself is GPL'd, perhaps Mozilla could simply make
calls against a compiled, installed gpg to not violate any license agreement.

The Mac port team

http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/

is developing a framework, so whether we would talk with that, or call gpg in
some other way, I have no idea.

I assume this could work on any platform gpg could run on; those are listed here.

http://www.gnupg.org/backend.html#supsys

Since I'm running OS X, of course I'd like to see it supported here. But I'm
listing this all/all, because I believe people on all platforms would want this
functionality.

- Adam

Comment 1

[David Grant]

I was wondering if a target could be set for this?  Mozilla will never win over
Kmail until it supports this.

Comment 2

[Paul Baker]

... or Evolution, or Mail.app on Mac OS X, or ...

Comment 3

[David Grant]

Even Outlook Express on Windows can do this, given the proper setup.

Comment 4

[David Grant]

I guess Mozilla already has some GPG support with the Enigmail project on 
Mozdev.org.  http://enigmail.mozdev.org

So what is the point of this bug report?  Is it to get Enigmail integrated into 
Mozilla?  Or is it just to work on Mozilla itself?  Or is it to use the 
underlying code in Enigmail and integrate it fully into Mozilla, so that the 
name Enigmail will be essentially gone, and it will be simply PGP for Moz?

Comment 5

[Adam Masri]

Well, I'm on MacOS X. The only platforms enigmail is supporting is Linux &
Windows. So, that doesn't help me.

I'd like to see this support directly integrated into Moz, so it is supported on
any platform that has a gpg port. A preference item could add or remove
gpg-related icons from the Moz toolbar. I would think by default these would be
turned off, for those who don't know what gpg is. Internal support of gpg should
lead to better cross platform support of the code, and better integration with
skins as those start to proliferate post 1.0. If that effectively kills off the
enigmail plugin, so be it.

- Adam

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

How is this different from bug 22687?

Comment 7

[Adam Masri]

I think you're right. That bug is discussing gpg as well as pgp.

- Adam

Comment 8

[Michael T. Babcock]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 22687?

Comment 9

[André Dahlqvist]

Yes, bug 22687 deals with both PGP and GnuPG.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22687 ***

Comment 10

[Wesha]

v.