Re: [enhydra] e-mail hurdles

[Mathieu MANGEOT-NAGATA <mangeot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I also sign digitally my emails (like this one) with a Thawte personal certificate,
and because of the recent law (LCEN or Loi Fontaine) adopted by the French government about the Internet 
(emails are not considered as private correspondence any more),
I will suggest all my friend to do the same so that we will be able to encrypt all our correspondence !

And so far I also have a problem with one of my correspondents. Hopefully, there is only one ;-)
She is also using Outlook on windows XP. The kind of problems she gets is the same as the ones Terry described.
We have not yet found any solution yet. I told her to try Rob solution and it might work.

I just wanted to say that I am using Apple Mail.app mailer on MacOsX to send my emails, and since
I also had a problem with one of my correspondents, I don't think the problem comes from the mailer as you 
describe it. Otherwise, Outlook AND Mail.app have the same problem and I doubt it!

Another thing: 
When I receive an email from Alfred, my mailer says that it is signed. I can also send encrypted messages to him (and only him so far!). 
But when I receive emails from you Eric, my mailer does not recognize that your email is digitally signed.
It only tells me that there is an attached file signature.asc.
Well for this case, it might be a problem from Mail.app which does not recognize yet how to handle G-PGP digital signatures.


Mathieu

On 16 janv. 04, at 7:39, Eric N. Valor wrote:
> Alfred:
>
> You may be using the "Return Receipt Requested" (mis)functionality of
> Outlook.  To my knowledge, this has never been instituted in SMTP due to
> security reasons (worse than the old "finger" vulns of old).  I believe
> you can turn that off on your Outlook without any problems (my wife uses
> this, too, and my mailserver/mail agent just quietly gives it the
> electronic middle finger...).
>
> I also digitally sign my email messages by using GPG (Gnu variant of
> PGP) to make a key, upload that to a public keyserver, and then sign
> and/or encrypt my messages.  To verify my signature you can request the
> public version of my key from a keyserver (wwwkeys.pgp.net is one) and
> add it to your public keyring.  This will verify my messages are from me
> (if not signed or the signature is bogus, beware).
>
> I also use Ximian Evolution (http://www.ximian.org) as my mail tool (I'm
> using Debian on my computer systems).  It does just about everything
> Outlook does (without the problems).

Mathieu MANGEOT-NAGATA
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