>Even better of course would be an app that extends Mac OS 9 Email client >capabilities with SSL, in much the same way as Baton Mail redirects SMTP >Auth connections. I'd suggest Chris do not write this application however >(so you can stop reading right here, Chris :| ). He's really done enough >for the Mac community.
Actually, if you look at my web site for Baton Mail, I have from day one had listed as a possible future feature "SSL Support". This was something that I forsaw a year and half ago as being a possible problem. Not because of AT&T, but because of a conversation I had with someone back when I started work on Baton Mail, where we talked about the future security of Emailer and the increasing obsolecence of old clients as new more secure measures were needed to counter-act spammers and theives. IF I could do away with 68k support (I don't know, can I, does anyone use Baton Mail on a 68k machine?) I could most likely add SSL support without much trouble. If I need to keep 68k support, then I have to roll my own SSL code, which is probably more effort than I will extend (at least for a free application... honestly, Baton Mail's development issues revolve around that exact issue. I get nothing for it, so it takes a back seat for paying work or more important things. Catch-22... as long as it keeps taking a back seat, I don't get the bugs fixed, which means I can't take it out of beta and start charging for it.) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
