Open Bug 1711294 Opened 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Missing per-recipient rules whether to use encryption lead to bad UX (Enigmail feature)

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Security: OpenPGP, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: kiebitz, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

In Enigmail we used to be able to create rules, for which recipient to use encryption or not. With the update to TB 78 this function has disappeared.

If users have one account, on which they communicate with some people with PGP and with some people unencrypted, they now have a bad expirience.

Either we can disable automatic encryption, and need to remember each time to enable it for the conversations that use it, or have it on, but get a annoying window everytime we communicate with people that don't have a key.
Also I sometimes get so used that I have to disable the encryption, that I routinely disable it, even when sending an email to someone who has a key.

This all leads to frequent problems, and can lead users to accidentally send information that should be encrypted in plain text.

Same for me. Especially with automatic updates happening.
I would be delighted, if this feature could be reimplemented :)
Thank you!

Type: defect → enhancement
Summary: Regression: Missing recipient rules lead to bad UX → Missing per-recipient rules whether to use encryption lead to bad UX (Enigmail feature)

Duplicate of Bug 1680815 ?

Please confirm and set priority high. This is not only UX but also a security issue! If one sets encryption per default to true replying to every contact without PGP key is so annoying that everybody switches encryption off after a while.

Is this what you want???

Enigmail was good, it remembered the state of the encrypted communication for every contact. I cannot understand why is was destroyed in favor of a much less convenient solution ... which is – compared to Enigmal – so bad that it also can be called useless in my opinion.

I wonder why this feature request (per recipient rule for openpgp) is not being acknowledged as extremely helpful and promotive for using mail encryption. Otherwise it would have been realized in 91.4.1.
Please set this to high priority!!
Thanks,
Boris

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