521388 - Automatically encrypt e-mail if recipient has certificate

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Dirk Schwartz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090913 SeaMonkey/2.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090913 SeaMonkey/2.0b2

SeaMonkey should automatically encrypt e-mails if the recipient has a certificate. This would make life much easier as one would not have to remember clicking on "Encrypt this message" every time and it would help to promote e-mail encryption.

Note that this is different from the "Default encryption required" setting.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose new e-mail to recipient with certificate
2. Forget to click "Encrypt this message"
3. Send e-mail

Actual Results:  
E-mail is not encrypted automatically.


Expected Results:  
E-mail is encrypted automatically.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Is this the same as MailNews Core bug 448964?

Comment 2

[Dirk Schwartz]

If I get it right, bug 448964 is mainly about key generation and getting certs into TB/SM. I already have my own CAcert S/MIME certificates and those of other people and would like to have SM encrypt my e-mails to them automatically.

Comment 3

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Current options (Account Settings, Security) are:
- Never (do not use encryption)
- Required (can't send message uneless all recipients have certificates)

Having a third possibility, encrypting if (all) recipients have certificates and maybe show a warning/confirmation if not, is surely a valid RFE. Confirming.

Comment 4

[Hooonza]

There is a Thunderbird extension Auto Encryption (http://sourceforge.net/projects/autoenc/) which knows it for TB.

Comment 5

[Dirk Schwartz]

"Auto Encryption 0.2.5 could not be installed because it is not compatible with SeaMonkey 2.0.14."

Comment 6

[Thomas Peters]

Any progress on this?