Re: PGP in Eudora and other mail programs

[Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>]

On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Lucky Green wrote:

> At 11:54 1/25/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
> 
> >(I understand from this list that Eudora for Windows is now doing this much
> >more automatically, that someone has a PGP-in-Eudora package. I don't think
> >it was from Qualcomm, but I could be wrong. As a Macintosh version user,
> >I'm hoping this comes to the Mac version as well.)
> 
> There exist two Eudora/PGP packets. The MacPGP Kit and MacPGP Control. I'd
> use MacPGP Control. Just do a search for it.

I tried 'em both and found them dog slow and unreliable, like most other
things based on AppleEvents. True command-line piping and DDE work in
UNIX/DOS/Windows, but there's none of that on the Mac. What I've done is
ResEdit key combinations into my software to do wordwrap, then I cut text,
switch to the PGP window, sign or encrypt the clipboard, switch back to
the mail/news window, and paste. MacPGP's "dialog shortcuts" make this
mostly painless. We don't need no steenking automation. 

Of course this doesn't work for attaching files, but I do that
sufficiently rarely that the minor pain of handling that case manually is
outweighed by the interest of minimizing the gunk in RAM and on the menu
bar. 

-rich