RocketChat / RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

feature wish: GPG encrypted email

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@makibras is already working on this.

Since Feb 13, 2020.

feat: email security triaged type: improvement
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Description

For @ mentions, email is sent unencrypted. This might leak confidential info. It would be nice if outgoing email was encrypted with GPG if the target email address has a public key available on one of the key servers ("gpg --search-key someone@example.com")

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