Hey, look... someone other than me has come up with a way of once again extending the life of Emailer!! WOOHOO!!!
Mike from the list pointed out a tidbits article to me that he thought might be good for Emailer... and it looks like he is right. The original article is here: <http://www.tidbits.com/ExtraBITS/> scroll about 1/3 of the way down to the "Inserting Security on Every Message" posting. It seems, PGP 9.0 Desktop works for SSL much the way Baton Mail works for SMTP Auth (although with less bugs I hope). PGP is an encryption system for those that don't already know. It is intended to let you encrypt data so only a person with the correct decryption info (such as the password), can access it. It has long worked with things like Emailer (in fact, early versions actually installed a menu directly into Emailer). It looks like the new version (based on the tidbits posting, I didn't actually download and install it myself to test), will act as an SSL relay for any email program. So you set it up much like Baton Mail I guess, you tell it what the SSL connection info is, and when you use your email, it passes thru PGP, into the SSL stream, and on to the mail server. I know a few people have mentioned they need or want SSL support because their ISP/Mail host requires or offers it. PGP should be able to come to the rescue here and let you start using SSL with your email connections. If you don't understand what SSL is, or why you would use it... you don't need it, ignore this email. For those that do need it, you probably have your heart racing right about now, have a big excited smile on your face, and are racing over to the tidbits site to read the posting. Big round of applause goes out to Mike for having an alert eye and catching this tidbits post. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
