At 12:18 AM 2/28/96, you wrote:

Instead of messing with user interfaces, you set the POP and SMTP addresses of your mail program to "localhost". You run locally a Visual Basic program that sits on ports 110 (POP) and 25 (SMTP) listening for connections. The VB program is configured with the addresses of your real SMTP and POP servers, and acts as a proxy.

When your mail program retrieves POP mail, it goes through the VB program, and the VB program decrypts any PGP mail it sees. When it sends mail, the VB program encrypts any mail it has a PGP key for the recipient of.

Once this is set up, the user burden is near zero, and it works with any winsock-based mail program. What do you think of the idea?

Brilliant. You could even set it up so that it also proxies your smtp out going, and compares each destination to a list of people you want to automatically encrypt to. I suggest a list because while you may have some people's keys in your keyring, for a variety of reasons they may not want to receive trivial pgp mail. Joseph Block <jpb@miamisci.org> "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." -- Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A) PGP 2048bit-Fingerprint: F8 A2 A5 15 56 42 9B 16 3F BD 57 0F 8A ED E3 21 No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.