"Seeker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 19 Apr 2001, 4:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I use Pegasus myself. Because of its structure, it has proven immune to
> > everything so far. However, it's HTML rendering is far from robust. So if
> > you have correspondents who are rudely mailing HTML pages as mail, you may
> > not be able to read their scratches. (Better to encourage them not to do
> > it, anyway.)
>
> HTML is going to work just fine in version 4 of Pegasus Mail.
It would be a pleasant surprise if so. Occasionally, someone will
send an ill-formed HTML page that causes the current version to
crash. It only happens about once every two or three months, an
average of about one occurrence per 30,000 messages, but it's still
an annoyance considering that it tends to require a reboot when it
does.
> > 2. Can it be interfaced to encryption software? PGP can be
> > interfaced very easily to both Outlook and Eudora. There is a free
> > third-party plug-in for Pegasus that is so-so. To find out if there
> > is a plug-in for other mailers, please look at
> > http://www.pgpi.org/products/tools/search/ for more info.
>
> You can get QDPGP for Pegasus Mail here:
>
> http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~grt/qdpgp.zip
>
> Note that this will only work with PGP 658 since the author has been
> unable to obtain the source for any versions after 658. That may be ok
> anyway since NAI is not releasing the source code we have no way to
> check those versions for backdoors.
NAI will, according to both their own news releases and Phil
Zimmerman himself, publish the source code to version 7.0.3. NAI
typically does not publish the source code immediately on product
release, but usually takes three to six months after release to
publish the code.
Much of the reason for this delay is to clean up the notes, comments,
and formatting problems that code tends to acquire in the rush before
each release. I'm sure that anyone on this list who writes software
for a living can appreciate how some notes and comments that are
added to a program really shouldn't be published, or how inconsistent
code formatting can become when several people are furiously working
to get a product out. With the PGP source code printout now well
over the 5,000 page mark, it does take some real time to go through
the code carefully.
So it's not quite the case that NAI will not be releasing the source
code for at least one later version. They are merely following the
same practice that they have ever snce acquiring PGP.
Emily Sandblade
Founder, Seattle cypherpunks
PGP 5.x key available on public keyservers
PGP Key ID: 0xBD5A33C8
PGP Fingerprint: 75D8 FEE6 4D0D 11EA 69E5 4FE6 4DEA 19F9 BD5A 33C8
