Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:00:51 -0500 Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VZ has an overly complicated concept of GPG usage in email clients. > > That's because I don't have _any_ concept. I'd be really glad if someone > could explain to me what does it involve.
At least the following features: 1) Sending - Ability to choose a GPG id in the identity configuration page (same for S/MIME). - Ability to select in a message composition dialog wether to encrypt, sign, encrypt and sign or leave unencrypted the currently edited message. - If you want to encrypt a message, get the public gpg key of all To/Cc/Bcc addresses and encrypt the message with these public keys. - Configuration dialog wether to encrypt/sign only message itself (text/plain) or the entire message, including any attachments. - After the Send button is pressed, ask for the passphrase if the message is to be signed, then sign, encrypt, and send the message. - Configuration dialog wether to save the original or the signed/encrypted message in the Sent-Mail folder. 2) Viewing messages - If a message is encrypted, in the message viewer, ask for the passphrase, then decrypt and show the message, and all encrypted attachments. - If a message is signed, try to verify the signature using gpg. If the public key of the sender is not available, query an OpenPGP keyserver. - Configuration dialog for OpenPGP keyservers. - If the signature was successfully verified, show a little graphical icon to indicate this. - If the message didn't successfully verify, show a warning dialog. - If the public key wasn't available and couldn't be found on the keyserver, show a warning dialog. S/MIME is pretty much analoguous. What I described is how mutt handles it, only translated to a GUI application. HTH, Gerhard ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
