[Enigmail] Encrypt newsposts

[Robert J. Hansen]

mailinglists wrote:
> my problem is that enigmail refuses to encrypt posts. Actively refuses.

This is not an Enigmail defect, the same way that it's not a defect for
a pistol to refuse to fire if the safety is on.  In both cases, the
tools are behaving entirely properly, and have been designed that way
for your safety.

As a few people here have already told you, it doesn't make sense to use
asymmetric crypto to post encrypted messages to a newsgroup.  Enigmail
is not refusing to encrypt posts; it's refusing to let you do something
that it's pretty sure is a mistake.

What you want to do is _incredibly_ niche -- in a dozen years of being
active in the PGP world, this is the first time I've ever heard of it --
and it's reasonable for Enigmail to not support incredibly niche uses.
If we support this behavior, we will probably field hundreds of
"Enigmail doesn't work, it's garbling all my newsgroup posts!" for every
user who has a legitimate use case for the feature.

I would suggest going a different route.  Tell us what your specific
need is.  What do you wish to achieve?  There are probably better ways
to do it than this.