Enigmail Standard In Mandrake 9.0

AxelTorvalds writes "The Mozilla 1.1 RPMs in Mandrake 9.0 contain the enigmail plugin. It seemlessly encrypts, signs, decrypts and authenticate email with GPG or PGP in the Mozilla Mail client. This is the first major distributor I know of to support enigmail. With this and Evolution and Kmail both supporting GPG and PGP are we at the dawn of that golden age when encrypted email will be commonplace?" Update: 09/15 17:26 GMT by T : Borked link fixed.

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Gentoo ships enigmail with moz1.1

[Tester]

I'd like to point out that the mozilla 1.1 ebuild in gentoo actually includes enigmail... But yes I know that it is still masked for some reason that's outside of my understanding.

Re:Gentoo ships enigmail with moz1.1

[Anonymous Coward]

As a current developer @ Gentoo (I'm answering as an anonymous coward since I'm speaking against Gentoo and I'm a dev there) I do have to honestly agree with you. There have been a total of ~8000 bug requests put into our Bugzilla (not removing dups and not adding bugs that are e-mailed to devs or on the forums) and there are currently over 1400 opened bugs. This is not a release quality product. The install docs are quite lacking and I have even submitted revisions to the docs maintainer and he has failed to merge them in. The developer group as a whole finds themselves largely unmotivated and without direction. Infact before posting this I had a convo with another dev who says he's not active at all. He feels Gentoo has gone the wrong way and plans on quitting and joining the newly forming group made of current and ex-Gentoo developers. I intend on joining this group too as soon as they produce something worthwhile to join.

Interestingly enough drobbins (Gentoo lead) had yelled at all the devs that he wants all copyright s changed to his name or the Gentoo name on the developer only listserv known as "-core". It might not seem interesting in itself but I received e-mails from several people saying drobbins has contacted them about a business model that will charge for Gentoo and updates as well as creating 3 different versions of Gentoo.. Home, Power, and Server. Does this sound like Windows XP again? And a 1.x generation product with 1400 current bugs... It really does sound like Microsoft all over again.

I posted this because I do not agree with drobbins and his management style. I am on as a figurehead dev now and that is it.. I do no work. Anytime I attempt to address this with drobbins I get a stern lecture. It's not worth it and not fun for me anymore.

Wrong, Gentoo was the first

[fire-eyes]

freenode.net #gentoo asked me to do this.

Gentoo was the first, and yes, gentoo IS major.

Important notes!

[ekrout]

Here are some good things to know in case you didn't read all of the Tutorial/FAQ at the Enigmail web site:

Is Enigmail working?

If installation was successful, you will need to restart the browser. (On Windows 9x/ME systems, you may sometimes need to reboot before restarting.) After restarting the browser, launch the Mail/News window, which should have an Enigmail menu on the menubar. Choose the About Enigmail option, which should display the version number and the PGP/GPG executable details.
Enigmail has only been tested with milestone releases of Mozilla. If you use a daily build (or your own build) of Mozilla, Enigmail may not work and may even crash your build!

RFC3156

[Glytch]

Thank god they follow the MIME/OpenPGP standard! Now maybe us Sylpheed users will be able to decrypt email from non-Sylpheed users without having to jump through a slew of goddamn copy-to-clipboard hoops.

Email client developers, take note. Please don't reinvent the wheel. It only slows down adoption of encryption.

Seems to get included in more distros

[OSSturi]

A week ago I've downloaded the 1.1 mozilla rpm from SuSE's ftp-server. It came with enigmail included as well. So this seems to get a standard part of more distros. This is a good thing.

Re:Shakes head

[ocelotbob]

Have you used the systems you're talking about, or are you just talking out of your ass again? The whole point of enigmail, which I have installed on this system, is to make it as seamless and automatic as possible to encrypt/decrypt messages. Currently, I have it set up to automatically sign my messages by default, though switching to automatic encryption is simply a matter of changing a menu option. The binary will have everything you need already installed, all you'll have to do is have it make a key.

Just because Microsoft has made it difficult and/or impossible to have secure mail, doesn't mean other vendors have such difficulties.

Re:Golden Age Ahead

[MonMotha]

Enigmail menu in mozilla has an "Insert Public Key" option, and it will import them for you upon request when they have been inlined (which is all that menu option does).

A person would still have to know that people need their public key in order for anything to work, but the option to send it is there.