On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Lucky Green wrote:

At 11:54 1/25/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

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(I understand from this list that Eudora for Windows is now doing this much more automatically, that someone has a PGP-in-Eudora package. I don't think it was from Qualcomm, but I could be wrong. As a Macintosh version user, I'm hoping this comes to the Mac version as well.)

There exist two Eudora/PGP packets. The MacPGP Kit and MacPGP Control. I'd use MacPGP Control. Just do a search for it.

I tried 'em both and found them dog slow and unreliable, like most other things based on AppleEvents. True command-line piping and DDE work in UNIX/DOS/Windows, but there's none of that on the Mac. What I've done is ResEdit key combinations into my software to do wordwrap, then I cut text, switch to the PGP window, sign or encrypt the clipboard, switch back to the mail/news window, and paste. MacPGP's "dialog shortcuts" make this mostly painless. We don't need no steenking automation. Of course this doesn't work for attaching files, but I do that sufficiently rarely that the minor pain of handling that case manually is outweighed by the interest of minimizing the gunk in RAM and on the menu bar. -rich