--- trunk/doc/gpgoe.texi 2006/04/07 10:46:41 12 +++ trunk/doc/gpgoe.texi 2006/04/10 05:39:33 15 @@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ This file describes the GPGOE functions and the integration in the Outlook Express mailer. +This file is free under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. + +Copyright (C) 2006 Timo Schulz + +@settitle GPGOE - the GnuPG plug-in for Outlook Express + @section Requirements for GPGOE First you need to have a working GnuPG installtion on the machine you @@ -63,6 +69,13 @@ was correct, the plugin will sign the message and store it in the outbox. +@subsection Sign and Encrypt a message +To sign and encrypt a message, you have to check both toolbar +buttons ("Sign" and "Encrypt"). The procedure is the same as +in encrypt-only when one or more email addresses couldn't be +mapped. Then the default key is used to sign the plaintext +before it is encrypted with the selected recipients. + @subsection Decrypt and/or verify a message If you received an OpenPGP message, you can just double-click the message to open it. The plug-in will figure out if it is @@ -75,14 +88,32 @@ will figure out the message status and will take the needed steps. If the message is neither signed nor encrypted, no action is performed. +@subsection Reply to an encrypted message +Newer versions of the plug-in provide a feature to decrypt the +message before the text is used in the reply mail. As a result, +the reply message will contain the plain text instead of the encrypted +GPG armored message. +This feature is automatically used whenever the user clicks on "Reply" +or "Reply All" in the Outlook main window. But only in the case, the +mail is actually encrypted. Optionally the plug-in will ask for a +key passphrase. + @section Additional information and limitations of the GPGOE plug-in @itemize @bullet @item +If you manually installed GPG and GPGoe, please make sure that +you installed GPG at a standard place or create at least the gpgBinary +registry entry. This is not needed if you use an automatic installer +like GPG4WIN or GnuPT. + +@item Due to the fact the plug-in uses the clipboard for data transfer, the clipboard itself can be only of limited use to copy/paste messages -into the mailer window or elsewhere. +into the mailer window or elsewhere. Newer versions of the plug-in +save the original clipboard text before encryption/signing and the +ext is restored after the GPG operation ends. @item The current version of the plug-in will NOT encrypt any attachments @@ -97,7 +128,9 @@ @item Even so the plug-in supports native line endings, which means you can properly exchange mails with Linux or Apple users, it is likely -that there are problems with the charset. +that there are problems with the charset. Newer versions of the +plug-in try to handle UTF8 encoding correctly but even so it cannot +be 100% assured that the receiver can handle the text in all cases. @item If you want to import keys or attach keys to a mail, you have to