Open Bug 1688746 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

visually show encryption key availability for each recipient and encryption status for entire message

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: darthbolek4, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Steps to reproduce:

Extra information about encryption options/status would be handy (before pressing send).

How it can look like:

  1. for each recipient (in fields: TO, CC, BCC) show extra pictogram next to email address, informing about availability of encryption key (green - present, red - unavailable)
  2. with multiple recipients (i.e. dozens) setting background colour of fields (TO, CC, BCC) to green, when all recipients keys are available; and to orange when at least one recipient key is not available. (key = encryption key)

At this moment using encryption is not exactly convenient - it requires manually enabling (problem: not forgetting about it) or disabling it (problem: annoying).

With extra visual info, an user would know if message is going to be encrypted or not before pressing 'send' button.

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