[CLUE-Talk] Re: [CLUE-Tech] <OT> gmail again

[Greg Knaddison]

<sorry for the continued off topic stuff>

This could all be made easier with some of the daemons allowable with libgmail:

http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/

++++++++++++begin excerpt+++++++++++++
Use your Gmail account as a SMTP server

The library now includes a demonstration utility gmailsmtp.py that
sets up a SMTP proxy on port 8025 of your computer to enable you to
use a standard mail client (e.g. Mozilla, Mail.app) to send messages.
(Attachments are now supported.)
++++++++++++end excerpt+++++++++++++

Have KMail configured to email encrypted mail to your localhost SMTP
server and you are off to the privacy races...

BTW - Gmail offers SSL access to the webmail.

Greg

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:33:24 -0600, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:13:20 -0600
> Jeff Cann <j.cann at isuma.org > wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, only client MUAs such as Kmail allow for easy encryption
> > of messages.  Services like gmail, yahoo, hotmail are even less secure
> > because your mail always remains out of your control and none of them
> > have features to encrypt.
> 
> 1) create file containing message
> 2) encrypt/sign file
> 3) send encrypted file as an attachment
>   a) I assume the services provide for attachments
>   b) if not, then UUencode the encrypted file
>      and paste the output into your web interface
> 4) send
> 5) recipient decrypts file
> 
> Yeah, it's a bit more hassle, but do-able.
> 
> jed
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