At 05:10 PM 8/31/96 -0700, Joel McNamara wrote:

In my never-ending search for the perfect PGP e-mail client, I just stumbled >on to a beta of a product put out by FTP Software called Mail OnNet. Unlike >the Pronto Secure and Pegasus, this client actually has PGP code (licensed >from PGP Inc.) built directly in. No shelling out to DOS!

It is very nice. It is a bit on the hard side to get. (Took me three tries. It seems to time out the transfer if it is not completed within a certain time frame. I guess that is what I get for trying to download all three parts at the same time.) It does have the beta nature however. I have found a couple of problems with the program that make it so that i will not use it beyond testing. The people at FTP have been very responsive to e-mail, so I expect the problems to be fixed soon. They also seem to have no idea as to what it will retail for. With proper marketing, Eudora could be in real trouble.

Very nice interface and almost complete idiot-proof encrypting/decrypting/signing. Extremely powerful rules based processing too.

The interface design is very clean. (It is nice seeing well designed dialog boxes in a product. I have been using too much shareware lately I guess...) The rules processing looks to be very powerful. (Puts Eudora 3.0 to shame.)

Check out:

http://www.ftp.com/mkt_info/onnet32/try.htm

IMHO, this is getting very close to transparent secure e-mail for the masses.

Now all they need is a remailer interface.

Two notes. (1) It only runs under Win95 and NT. (2) It's ITAR restricted.

(3) It is bigger than a battleship. The distribution is just shy of 10 megs. Installed it is supposed to be about 45 megs. (In perspective, a full install of Visual Basic 4.0 "Professional" is about 50 megs.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."