Agree, but according to security team, that functionality is not currently implemented.
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 > > Ben > > Jennifer Glick wrote: > > > Screenshot of your suggestion is here: > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet8.gif > > > > Some additional alternatives based on some of the other suggestions: > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet4.gif > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet5.gif > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet6.gif > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet7.gif > > > > And of course, the originals: > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet1.gif > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet2.gif > > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/security/images/AcctSet3.gif > > > > John Gardiner Myers wrote: > > > > > >>There has been no response to my comments of Nov 5: > >> > >> > >>>In the account settings, there is a tri-state encryption preference, the three > >>>states being to never encrypt, to encrypt if possible, and to encrypt always. > >>>This is confusingly presented as a checkbox and two radio buttons. It should > >>>instead use three radio buttons, just like the tri-state SMTP SSL preference. > >>> > >>>The checkbox for "Digitally sign messages" should be in the same outline box > >>>as the certificate selector. The two are strongly related--it makes no sense > >>>to enable signing of messages without having a cert. The selected certs are > >>>only used when signing has been enabled. > >>> > >>>I suggest two outline boxes, one for encryption, the other for signing. The > >>>"Recipient Certificates" preferences should go into the Encryption outline > >>>box. > >>> > >>>The tooltip for reading a signed message should include any e-mail address in > >>>the signing cert. When the signer of a message has a commonly used name, such > >>>as "John Smith," it isn't very helpful to just present the common name. > >>> > >>> > >
