Review of the EPP plug-in 0.2 for Eudora
[Note: this is CCed to the developer for two reasons. First, I wanted him to know of the review. Second, I have another two bugs at the bottom that I have not reported.] I have been putting the Eudora PGP plug-in through its paces. My findings have been interesting... The instalation was quick and painless. All of the defaults were pulled from the mail information upon first running the Eudora after installing. It provides some basic functions for using PGP. The functions provided are: -- Clearsign Message -- Decrypt Message -- Encrypt Message -- Verify Signature -- Add Key -- Paste (Insert) Key These appear under the Edit menu in the plug-ins submenu. (It would be nice for these to be in their own seperate menu, but that may be beyond the scope of the plug-in developers kit.) I have not seen any glaring errors (GPFs and the like.) There are some functional problems I have discovered. These should be cleaned up in a future version. (What do you expect for a 0.2 release?) These are the problems/bugs I have found so far: -- If you do not define a default ID in the PGP config.txt, it will take the last ID generated on the secret key ring. (This is a common problem. This is not the only app that has it.) -- The program does not word wrap before sending the message to get signed. This breaks the signature when Eudora word wraps it opon sending the message. (Another common problem. I remember a bunch of apps fixing this one at one time a few months ago...) -- If you decrypt a message, the mail headers are destroyed. (I just discovered this one last night. It makes replying a bit of a challenge...) -- The plug-in does not deal with "personalities". (This is not a bug, but something that would be *REAL* helpful. Now if you could get personalities that connected to nym servers.) All in all, this is a useful plug-in. It has a few rough spots, but that is to be expected. (This is a 0.2 release.) Having this functionality in Eudora makes PGP encrypted lists *MUCH* more usable. (Cut and paste for each message and/or firing up a seperate e-mail app to scan for messages becomes more trouble than it is worth in a real hurry...) BTW, this is the original information as to where to get the plug-in. How much of this is current, i am not certain... (The mailing list was broken according to Lucky Green.)
a few days ago, it may not have shown up at the sites below yet, so give it a few days:
gt6525c@prism.gatech.edu with the subject of "eppi news", and the following message body:
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Alan Olsen