Pete,

It's been a couple of years since I played with Symantec PGP, but I do
remember that the product will perform various tasks (encryption,
signing, PGP-Partitioned vs PGP/MIME, send in the clear) based upon
rules that the user can define.  One such default rule is the presence
of the character string "[pgp]" in the email subject, or in the body of
the email - but these are only defaults.

The user can define */any/* string to perform almost any
encryption/signing task.  He can change the user-friendly defaults.  He
can even specify that emails of "high importance" should be encrypted
and/or signed.  I used to use the subject field string "[pgp-m-e]" to
encrypt using PGP/MIME and "[pgp-m-s]" to use PGP/MIME and sign - but
these are just two of my personal examples.

Before you go to a lot of trouble to automate the inclusion of a
particular string in the subject field, you should know precisely how
your correspondent has configured his rules in his installation of
Symantec PGP.  He may not be using the default string of "[pgp]".

I'm sorry :-(    I know that I have not answered your question about how
to automate the inclusion of the string you wish to use.  Like you, I'm
not very experienced in JavaScript or Thunderbird plugins either.

Neil

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On 3/10/2016 3:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I use Enigmail to converse with colleagues that use Symantec PGP
> Desktop with Outlook.
>  
> The outlook setup uses "[pgp]" in the subject to decide whether or not
> to encrypt an email.
>  
> I would like Enigmail to automatically add "[pgp]" to a subject when
> sending so that the outlook users will automatically encrypt when
> replying to threads.
>  
> Would it be possible to add an option to add a configurable string to
> the subject of encrypted mails?
>  
> In the meantime, I tried hacking it in myself. I tried adding this to
> enigmailMsgComposeOverlay.js/encryptInline():
>  
>         if (!gMsgCompose.compFields..subject.match(/\[pgp\]/i)) {
>             gMsgCompose.compFields.subject += " [pgp]";
>             var subj = document.getElementById("msgSubject");
>             subj.value = gMsgCompose.compFields.subject;
>         }
>  
> but it didn't work. I have to admit, I'm not very experienced in
> javascript or Thunderbird plugins.
>  
>  
> Regards,
> Pete
>  
>  
>
>
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