[Enigmail] Idea for improvement usability of sending to mixed groups of recipients (with gpg and without gpg support)

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> John Clizbe wrote:
>> This is *NO* use case in using encryption that would *EVER* require
>> the simultaneous sending of both encrypted and plaintext copies of
>> the same message.
> 
> I can actually think of one, although it's kind of contrived.  If you're
> on a secure intranet, sending email to people both within and outside
> the intranet, it could potentially make sense to send plaintext to
> people on the intranet and ciphertext to the internet.
> 
> This is a bogus example, though, for two reasons.  First, the external
> mail gateway would take care of the encryption, you wouldn't -- and
> second, sending email directly to people on a secure intranet and an
> insecure internet seems kind of ... well ... stupid.
> 
> So beyond some admittedly contrived examples, I'm in full agreement with
> John (actually, with the Johns) on this one.  I have never seen a
> real-world use case that involves sending both plaintext and ciphertext
> versions of the same message.

To come to an end on this topic: being the developer of Enigmail, I
would never spend my time on implementing such a feature since I don't
think that there is any valid use-case behind it. And if someone would
submit a patch to add this feature, I'm not sure if I would accept it.

- -Patrick
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