512936 - No "Lock-symbol" displayed on the "Envelope-icon" of encrypted mails e. g. in the Inbox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[dfghjkjhg]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Thunderbird/3.0b3

Currently e-mails e. g. in the Inbox do just have a "normal envelope-icon", even if the e-mail is encrypted.

For encrypted e-mails it would be a big gain to have an "envelope-icon with a lock-symbol" (like for secure accounts (SSL) in left-handside account/folder-pane).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[dfghjkjhg]

I forgot to mention that there should also be a "pen-symbol" on the envelope if the mail is signed.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

that implies that s/mime support is broken in the message header area. Is that a known issue, dmose?

Comment 3

[dfghjkjhg]

Attachment: Envelope Icons prefixing subject lines

Comment 4

[dfghjkjhg]

Hold on ! The message header itself works fine with lock & envelope (instead of a pen) indicating enryption & signature.


What I was wondering was why there's no lock (encryption) & pen (signature) ON THE envelope PREFIXED to each SUBJECT LINE in e. g. the INBOX MESSAGE PANE/LIST.

However after having a closer look onto my current inbox again, I realized that there are no envelopes prefixed to the subject lines at all any more (formerly there where at least opened/closed envelopes prefixed to the subjects indicating read/unread -->  see attachment to my comment #3 which shows an old TB-screenshot).

Very strange... Seems that all subject-envelopes have been removed completely now (only the arrows indicating answered/forwarded are still alive).

Comment 5

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

That's an interesting idea; what task(s) / use case(s) is it intended to support?  Since it would come at the cost of a bit of visual complexity, it would be interesting to understand when/why would it be helpful to have that information displayed there...

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

bearing in mind that we don't know if the message is signed/encrypted correctly until you, the user, read it.

Comment 7

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Isn't that an implementation detail?  I.e. if we decided that this were truly important, we could presumably verify that stuff at download time, at least for pre-downloaded messages.

Comment 8

[dfghjkjhg]

@ Dan / comment #5: You are right. Thinking about again, I agree that there's no "real" advantage having a lock/pen-icon displayed in the subject line - maybe only a "nice to have". The reason for my request was that I was formerly using MS Outlook, WinMail and WinLiveMail and they were all providing this. So I was just wondering why TB doesn't. But again, at the moment I cannot imagin a real advantage from having these icons already displayed e. g. in the inbox - whereas it would be nice to have ...

Comment 9

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Closing as WONTFIX.  If someone reading this comes up with an important use case, feel free to add it here and reopen this bug for discussion.