Closed Bug 1769744 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Option to enable mail encryption only if matching recipient key exists

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Security
Version:
Thunderbird 91
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 10
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135636

People

(Reporter: pschoenb, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Enable mail encryption by default.
    2 Compose a new message.
  2. No matching key for the mail recipient exists.

Actual results:

TB refuses to send the message until you disable the encryption manually.

Expected results:

At least a further option would be needed that allows to enable encryption by default, but that sends the mail unencrypted without complaining if no matching key exists. The old Enigmail addon also worked that way.

The current "encrypt by default" is pretty unusable in real use, as almost no one has only recipients that can receive encrypted mail.

Component: Untriaged → Security
OS: Unspecified → Windows 10
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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