[Enigmail] Encrypt newsposts

[John Clizbe]

mailinglists wrote:
> Hi, thank you all,
> 
> my problem is that enigmail refuses to encrypt posts. Actively refuses.
> 
> I am using a shared public/private key and have set up identity and
> rules such that encrypting is active when posting to this particular
> newsgroup, say it's called rc.test
> 
> Enigmail finds the rule but then refuses to continue.
> 
> So it's not a matter of how to set up my keys, I (think I) already done
> that. It's just that enigmail detects a newsgroup address in the
> recipients and then prints this error and stops with this error message.
> 
>>> Presently enigmail complains: "Encrypted send operation aborted.\n\nThis
>>> message cannot be encrypted because there are newsgroup recipients."
> 

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> 
> Thank you, I already did that. But enigmail refuses to inline encrypt my
> post.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Enigmail is "Doing The Right
Thing(tm)". This is probably the only time I've ever seen mention of
encrypting news, so I don't think Enigmail should be changed to allow
it. It's an outlier behavior.

I think you're going to need to do your encryption up-front before
clicking Send. PGPDesktop/GPGshell/WinPT all provide both current-window
and clipboard capability for doing this.

My $0.02.
-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
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