[Enigmail] S/MIME and Enigmail

[Jean-David Beyer]

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Henning Meyer wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| maybe an old topic. But anyway. Because some of my contacts use GPG and
| some use S/MIME, I'm working with GPG/Enigmail and S/MIME. While in
| Enigmail I can setup rules for Contacts, I cannot find a setting for
| S/MIME. But I'd like to have a setting which encrypts and signs all mails
| for the GPG-Contacts via Enigmail and signs all other mail via S/MIME.
| This is not possible for me. Thunderbird want's to sign all mail with
| S/MIME, which has to be turned off manually for each GPG-Contact-Mail,
| because elsewise the mail won't be signed nor encrypted with GPG.
|
| Any hints?
|
If you are in a _compose_ window in Thunderbird and you click (at the top of
the window) on OpenPGP you will get a drop-down menu that has, among other
things, a checkbox that says: "Use PGP/MIME for This Message". I do not
remember what the default is, but all you have to do is uncheck that box and
it will be signed like this one.

Of course this is the default setting and applies to all your e-mails unless
you hit the lower OpenPGP (Icon in my case) and change it for the individual
e-mail. I know of no _automatic_ way to get it to sign one way for some
people and another way for others.

But consider this: Imagine sending a signed e-mail to a mailing list like
this one. Some of the people want in signed inline, some want it signed
PGP/MIME, and some do not want it signed at all. You cannot do that
automatically in any case, since, assuming preferences evenly distributed,
you will offend at least 50% of the recipients (the 1/4 who do not care at
all being 25% of the assumed population).

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