Open Bug 937022 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Can't encrypt w/ S/MIME without having a certificate of your own

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: sven-mozilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: DUPEME)

Thunderbird won't let me encrypt an email, even if I have the certificate of the recipient, unless I configure S/MIME. Why? I don't see a reason for that. I don't want to sign the mail with my private key, I just want to encrypt it with the recipients public key. If Thunderbird would support this, more emails would get encrypted. Ideally, in combination with the "Encrypt if possible" add-on, Thunderbird would start sending encrypted S/MIME mails in response to signed S/MIME mails (which contain the public key of the sender), without any configuration necessary by the user. Once the user sees how easy it is to set up S/MIME, perhaps she will get a certificate of her own.
Severity: normal → minor
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Version: 24 → Trunk
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Is this a duplicate of Bug 1014433?
Hardly, because this bug is much older.
Any plans to work on this issue? It could help with increased of email encryption. Ideally Thunderbird would opportunistically offer to encrypt an S/MIME mail as soon as it has seen the recipients certificate in the past.
Severity: minor → S4
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