On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, at 08:01:41 [GMT +0100] (which was 8:01 where I
live) Gunivortus Goos wrote:

> Hi Jernej Simončič,

>> This is impossible to do. What you want would require JavaScript
>> support, but even e-mail programs that use HTML engines with
>> JavaScript support do not execute scripts in e-mail messages anymore,
>> since they're a security risk.

> You are right, I tried it out and it failed.

> Hmmm.... still searching a way to send/recieve mail secure (scrambled)
> without using PGP or S/MIME.

> A while ago I read something about a small tool which installs itself
> between the emailclient and the mailserver (as several security tools
> do), asking to scramble a message. The reciever needs to install that
> tool too and askes a password to descramble it. The sender only has to
> give the reciever once a password.
> But obviously, that little tool disappeared, can't find it anymore.
> It was in alpha stadium, the programmer planned a beta in which one
> could put emailaddresses from contacts and for each a password. That
> beta never came.
> Pity I can't code such things myself.

Most people know how to use a MUA and how to send attachments.

An alternative that comes to my mind is to use for instance Word as a
textwriter and secure the document with a password and then send this as
an attachment.

HTH

-- 
Henk
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