195941 - show if certificate exist while adding email addresses in new mail window

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Tobias]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030302
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030302

When writing a new email, while filling in the recipients mail address I
would love to see if there is a certificate/public key for this address
available or not (esp. interesting with the first feature request).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> composition

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Ralf Hauser]

this is an excellent idea to foster the use of x509 Certs. It would be sad to
drop this. The major CA in the german part of the world just became insolvent.
(http://www.trustcenter.de/press/en/releases/210904_news_en.htm) If applications
do not do their best at supporting security as suggested in this RFE, we won't
be able to prove scott McNealy wrong
(http://georgesuttle.com/presentations/JMU/IIIE.shtml).

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 284648

Comment 5

[Hooonza]

It works for me with Auto Encryption http://sourceforge.net/projects/autoenc/ .