PGP in Eudora - possible answer in Penelope Talk

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dano - 27 Jun 2007 01:31 GMT

I've been looking for a definitive answer on whether or not PGP works
on/in Eudora for awhile. Finally found a note in the wiki Talk page for
Penelope that states that PGP works through Services:
<http://wiki.mozilla.org/Talk:Penelope#PGP>

"Currently, we only have plaintext PGP functionality through the
Services menu in Mac OS X."

If that's it, I'll take it. Does anybody in this ng use this? Any
comment on whether it does actually work? And how well or how poorly
does it work?

Thanks,

Dan

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Sander Tekelenburg - 27 Jun 2007 15:01 GMT

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> "Currently, we only have plaintext PGP functionality through the
> Services menu in Mac OS X."
>
> If that's it, I'll take it. Does anybody in this ng use this?

Yes, works fine for me.

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Hauke Fath - 29 Jun 2007 10:09 GMT

> I've been looking for a definitive answer on whether or not PGP works
> on/in Eudora for awhile. Finally found a note in the wiki Talk page for
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> comment on whether it does actually work? And how well or how poorly
> does it work?

Hm. I thought that one of the few advantages of Thunderbird was that you
could use up-to-date plugins? What's wrong with Enigmail?

hauke

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John H Meyers - 30 Jun 2007 11:21 GMT

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:09:46 -0500:

> I thought that one of the few advantages of Thunderbird
> was that you could use up-to-date plugins?
> What's wrong with Enigmail?

Interoperability? (including using the same keyrings?)

Quoting from http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html

In order to be able to use Enigmail, you need to install:
GnuPG >= 1.4.7, PGP from PGP Inc. is not supported.

Enigmail needs to be compiled using the same environment
as the Thunderbird or Mozilla Suite you are about to install it on.
This usually means that you should either use the official binary builds
of both (the Mozilla application and Enigmail) - or only use packages
provided by your distribution - or build both manually.

For example if you use a distribution Thunderbird package
with the official Enigmail build, you will encounter problems!

Enigmail is only tested against the milestone releases of Thunderbird,
Mozilla and Netscape. If you use a nightly, third-party or own build,
Enigmail may not always work and may even crash the application!

To use Enigmail, you need to have a recent version of GnuPG installed
on your system. We recommend GnuPG version 1.4.5 or higher.
In case you need help installing GnuPG on Windows
we have put together an installation and configuration guide.
PGP is not supported.
The Enigmail Team provides binaries only for selected platforms,
including Windows and Linux (x86/32).
If you wish to use Enigmail on other platforms,
you will need to compile Enigmime yourself.

We are happy to host contributed builds for any platform,
please send them to Olav or to the Mailinglist.

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Julian Y. Koh - 16 Jul 2007 18:42 GMT

> "Currently, we only have plaintext PGP functionality through the
> Services menu in Mac OS X."
>
> If that's it, I'll take it. Does anybody in this ng use this?

Works fine.

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