Re: [PATCH v1] Documentation: process: Document suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 12:03:31AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:

> +Proton Mail has a "feature" where it looks up keys using Web Key Directory
> +(WKD) and encrypts mail to any email recipients for which it finds a key.
> +Kernel.org publishes the WKD for all developers who have kernel.org accounts.
> +As a result, emails sent using Proton Mail to kernel.org addresses will be
> +encrypted.
> +Unfortunately, Proton Mail does not provide a mechanism to disable the
> +automatic encryption, viewing it as a privacy feature.

I'd perhaps add a note here that the reason the encryption is a
problem is that developers may not have their mail client set up
for easy and fluid operation with encrypted mail, making the
process of reading the mail needlessly difficult, or it may cause
some mail clients to encrypt replies to everyone including the
list which obviously won't work well.  But that's not essential,
either way

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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