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GNU Privacy Guard - Outlook Express Plugin |
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Some important information |
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Please consider this work as a beta version. Don't except that everything |
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works and be prepared for some unexpected behvaiours! So please use it |
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with some caution. |
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Even so I tested the plugin several times and what I can say is, that it |
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seems to work with W2K/WXP and Outlook Express (6.X). Because I don't |
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have any access to a machine with Vista, I cannot say anything how it |
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works with the new Outlook Express version. |
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Installation |
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To use the plugin a working GnuPG installation is *required*. If you |
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don't have GPG installed, please visit gnupg.org and read some manuals |
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about it. The easiest way is to use gpg4win to install GPG and WinPT. |
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Now you should unzip all files into a directory. Make sure that |
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the GPGOE.dll and the GPGOEInit.exe is located in the same directory. |
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Now start the GPGOEInit program. You'll see a small new icon (lock) |
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in the tasbkar. If there was no error message, the OE plugin is now setup |
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properly. To quit the program and to unload the GPGOE plug-in you've to |
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double click on the icon with the left mouse button. |
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Native language support |
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Currently the following languages are supported: |
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German, Italian |
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In the case you want to translate GPGOE into your language, please contact |
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me. The amount of strings that need to be translated is totally |
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manageable so that the translation takes about just 30 minutes. |
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How to use the plug-in |
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For now the plugin supports encryption, signing and decryption or to verify |
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signatures. There are *no* new icons in the OE mailer window. To encrypt a |
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message you've to add the S/MIME encrypt/sign buttons to the OE toolbar. |
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This is *required*. Now you can press one of the buttons to sign or encrypt. |
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If you click both buttons the message is signed *and* encrypted. |
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There are several ways to choose the recipients: |
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1. Use the OE addressbook and make sure that the email address of the |
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recipients is equal to the user ID's from the GPG key. |
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2. Enter the recipients manually. Then a keylist dialog is shown when |
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at least one of the recipients were not found and you can choose the |
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recipients which should use for encryption. It's also allowed to |
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select more then one. |
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Now we're at the point you get an signed or encrypted message. Open the |
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message and soon after you openend it, either a passphrase callback is shown |
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and you need to enter the passphrase or a dialog is shown for signature |
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verification. After the operation was successfull the plaintext is shown |
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in a separate text viewer. Or in the case it was a signature, the signature |
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status is shown. |
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If you've trouble to install or use the plugin, you can use the forum |
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at wald.intevation.org. But please, check the existing threads there |
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to make sure you questions wasn't already answered by someone else. |
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Hint |
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The plug-in does *NOT* use any S/MIME procedures. It only uses the OE |
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buttons, which had the S/MIME description, to encrypt/sign text. |
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And as a logical result, you cannot use S/MIME and OpenPGP at the |
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same time. If you want to use S/MIME again, just unload the plug-in. |
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