@kimapr it’s like saying “if the recipient has PGP configured”.
The amount of people having set it up, including large hosting providers (assuming people use their apps / web interface), is barely existent and mostly in the cyber security and enthusiast space from what I’ve seen.

And it’s Google we are talking about. The deprecation timeline starts on release day. “Statistics show there are no external s/mime recipients, so we are focusing on our own client you’ll have to use moving forward”

@fallenhitokiri

it’s like saying “if the recipient has PGP configured”.

It’s by far worse because there’s seemingly barely any options to get an S/MIME certificate for free. It looks like it’s literally just one company and they generate and keep the private keys server-side so it’s not really “end to end” encryption at all.