[Bug 168494] kmail always sends message encrypted, even if per-message encryption is turned off

[Peter Lewis]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168494


Peter Lewis <prlewis at letterboxes.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|WORKSFORME                  |




--- Comment #8 from Peter Lewis <prlewis letterboxes org>  2009-04-10 11:55:42 ---
Okay, sorry I guess I'm just so confused by how the encryption preferences are
supposed to fit together that it's difficult to separate out the issues into
separate bugs. I will try though.

So, I'll try to untangle the behaviour that occurs in my later comments and
file separate bugs, but I can confirm that the behaviour in my original report
is still present in 1.11.2.

However, I've discovered that the problem really is that in the address book
entry, the preferences under the "crypto settings" tab override the per-message
settings (i.e. toolbar buttons) without any warning. The problem I originally
described was that in the address book entry for the recipient, I had "always
encrypt" selected. This meant that the "encrypt" (padlock) button on a composer
window had no effect (but could still be toggled), and that no indication was
given in the composer window that the message would be encrypted (i.e. the
wrapper bar).

This may well be the desired behaviour (to override the per-message settings,
though it seems a little counter-intuitive to me), though if so can I suggest
that in the case that this happens, that at least the wrapper bar should appear
in the composer window, indicating that the message is to be encrypted (as
would happen if I'd selected the padlock toolbar button).

Also, I think that in this case some feedback should be given to the user
explaining why the message is being encrypted, despite the "encrypt" toolbar
button being unselected. Perhaps one of the following could occur:

- the encrypt button is greyed out,
- it is not present,
- the wrapper bar says that the message will be encrypted due to address book
settings, or something similar.

I hope this clears up the original problems! I'll file separate bugs for the
other stuff when I get that clear in my head too!

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