Hello Jack! On Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 6:02 PM, you wrote:
> With this new-found knowledge you've provided I now assume that PGP > or some other encryption utility could be used to completely encrypt > (make un-readable) any email message. True? True. I use PGP to encrypt private mails to a couple of my correspondents. Has worked flawlessly for me for about four years now. There's also Gnupg--apparently a spin-off--that some people like better. > And if so, would any recipient then need a key of some sort to make > the message readable? Yes. Key and password, in PGP--and in other such apps, I presume. If you do decide to use PGP, it has a plug-in to The Bat! It's very nice. But, be aware, that if you save a message in The Bat! as draft, which will park it in the Outbox, then: Outbox Folder settings take over. Your privacy setting will be the Outbox Folder's default setting--which you cannot change. If you then send without resetting "Encrypt" from the Privacy menu in the editor window, the message will go out unencrypted--in clear. Even though you originally set it to encrypt, before saving it as draft. I complained over-and-over on TBBETA about this behavior. No one there would agree with me that it was a serious security issue. Instead, they said that I should be a more attentive user and not expect The Bat! to "nanny" me. < shrug > -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.95.8 on Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.95.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
