[Enigmail] Encrypt newsposts

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 04/30/2009 09:51 AM, Hajo Kirchhoff wrote:
> I want to use enigmail to encrypt posts to a private news server.
> Presently enigmail complains: "Encrypted send operation aborted.\n\nThis
> message cannot be encrypted because there are newsgroup recipients."

I don't know about how enigmail might handle this, but i have a couple
general questions about your approach here:

To whom are you encrypting the message?  enigmail tries to find a match
for the recipient by scanning your keyring for a matching e-mail address.

Since a newsgroup doesn't have an e-mail address to target, enigmail is
likely to be confused.  OpenPGP user IDs are traditionally RFC 2822
e-mail addresses, but that doesn't mean they can't be, say, newsgroup
labels.  Do you have a key with a User ID which matches the newsgroup
name?  does that UserID/key combo have full calculated validity
according to the trust model you're using?

	--dkg

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