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Subject:    Re: [novalug] Re: encrypting mail.
From:       "Jameson C. Burt" <jameson () coost ! com>
Date:       2000-11-30 5:20:36
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This was considered tangentially on an http://www.rootprompt.org thread two 
days ago,
   http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1362
I suspect gnupg is a plugin replacement for pgp, which was more often 
mentioned in
that rootprompt.org thread.

I believe exmh will do gnupgp.
While I still use exmh, its reliance on mh makes its configuration awkward,
so I wait for one of these numerous new GUI mail-user-agents as a replacement.
 
Many people like XFmail, which apparently handles pgp and gnupg.
However, XFmail is being re-written on Gtk+ libraries and will be called 
Archimedes.
I set my eyes mostly on Archimedes or sylpheed below.

A couple other GUI (usually Gtk based) mail user agents I have seen others
recommend include
   sylpheed  #does gnupg/pgp and is the newest mail user agent,
             #appearance supposedly similar to MS Outlook Express
             #with Emacs-like keyboard commands (eclectic combination)!
   spruce    #handles pgp, but creates its own mailbox type (no standards?)
   balsa     #I don't know about pgp for balsa

I know Tim Bogart can handle any emailer, GUI or command-line based,
so why would he want a GUI emailer?
Hasn't he heard of the many people in this email-list who like Mutt?
It's fast over a network.
However, in a GUI, I can better use my 40 email folders that procmail pumps
300 messages into daily. 
I can see both the email message and the headers of unseen messages.
Honestly, email user agents have so many options I use in a pedestrian way
that my laziness prefers them; I still occasionally use mh whose commands
I half remember and half forget (there are so many emailer commands).
Besides the browser, the emailer is one of the few applications I get advantage
using a GUI.


> Speaking of encrypting mail, is there a good GUI email agent that will 
> allow me to use gnupg easily?  I remember some discussion on this about 
> a year ago.  Any suggestions are most welcome.

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Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L   Fairfax, Virginia, USA
jameson@coost.com       http://www.coost.com
(202) 690-0380 (work)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-- G.K. Chesterton



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