Bug 94878

Summary:	Missing choice in "Unusable Encryption Keys" dialog: don't encrypt
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Gilles Schintgen <gschintgen>
Component:	encryption	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lemma
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Gilles Schintgen 2004-12-11 00:51:05 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Hi, I was in the middle of moving to a different e-mail address when I encountered this error message:

  Unusable Encryption Keys
  Examination of recipient's encryption preferences yielded that
  the message should be encrypted using OpenPGP, at least for
  some recipients;
  however, you have not configured valid trusted OpenPGP
  encryption keys for this identity.
  You may continue without encrpyting to yourself, but be aware
  that you will not be able to read your own messages if you do
  so.

The dialog offers "Continue" and "Cancel" buttons. IMHO an obvious thing to do in this situation would be to send the message in plaintext (that depends of course on the content...) and then fix the configuration. Unfortunately, the dialog doesn't allow the user to override the behaviour defined in the Address Manager. In this particular case the recipient is even only set to "Always Encrypt If Possible" and not to "Always Encrypt". I'd say a third button "Send unencrypted" should be added to this message box.

Kind regards

Comment 1 Gilles Schintgen 2005-03-17 17:38:46 UTC

Same behaviour in KMail 1.8.
Perhaps I could make the description somewhat clearer. To reproduce this:
1. Open the composer
2. Choose an identity for which no private key has been configured
3. Choose a recipient for whom en encryption key is available, so that KMail tries to encrypt
4. Send

By the way, starting a new paragraph after a semicolon looks strange...

Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:15:02 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.