Jennifer Glick wrote: > > Benjamin Johnson wrote: > > > It seems like an addition option of: > > > > Send encrypted to recipients with certificates and unencrypted to > > recipients without certificates would be useful > > Agree, but according to security team, that functionality is not currently > implemented.
Generally, you encrypt email when you are concerned that someone other than the intended recipient of the email might see it, e.g. as it passes through the network, or as it sits on some store-and-forward email server. Encrypting the message is intended to prevent people with the ability to snoop on the network or on the email server disks from being able to make sense of the email message. Sending both an encrypted and unencrypted copy of the message defeats the purpose of the encryption, because it makes a plainly readable copy of the message to unintended recipients. If one is going to send an unencrypted copy of the message, then what purpose is served by also sending an encrypted copy? -- Nelson Bolyard Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not for Netscape
