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Enigmail Standard In Mandrake 9.0

Posted by timothy on from the ease-of-use dept.

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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  1. Gentoo ships enigmail with moz1.1 by Tester · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Wrong, Gentoo was the first by fire-eyes · · Score: 3, Informative

    freenode.net #gentoo asked me to do this.

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

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  3. Important notes! by ekrout · · Score: 3, Informative
    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!
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  4. RFC3156 by Glytch · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  5. Seems to get included in more distros by OSSturi · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:Shakes head by ocelotbob · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.

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  7. Re:Golden Age Ahead by MonMotha · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.