1. I want to easily/swiftly sign my outgoing mails with PGP/GPG
2. Mail tool plugins for this are bad except for Outlook [Express]
3. I'll never use Outlook [Express] on a machine I value :-)
My Plan:
Put an SMTP proxy on my local machine. As outbound mails pass through, it pops up a dialog box asking me what action to take; either:
a) just send it.It is of course slightly more horrid than this since it will have to decode the mime structure and just encrypt/certify the top level text part, but hey, that's what the JavaMail api is for...
b) certify it - it then asks for my password.
c) encrypt it, getting my pwd and using the recipient to identify which key to use.
(I've got a really nasty prototype that isolates the actual message from an ESMTP transaction by pattern matching on the \n\r\n\r<message>\n\r.\n\r and i've just realised that it's doomed to fail)
My Questions:
Is James a good platform for this?
I've been hunting for a good Java SMTP server with the ability to plug in transformation components and James is the best I've come across although it has "a few" more features than I need. A modified version of the remote delivery Mailet seems like the place to start.
Is this a mad idea?
Anything I've overlooked?
Might anyone else want this capability?
Thanks
-- Paul Sidnell Electric Pocket http://electricpocket.com
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