Seriously, the idea here is that the pgp front end shouldn't deal with the user interface in your present mail program. Nobody (before you) have considered doing it completely without a user interface.

Exactly. Yes, it will at least have to have a config screen. It will probably have to prompt for a passphrase on the fly, unless you want to store it. It can ask to encrypt or not, or it can have a header in the message. The important thing is I don't care about the user interface of the mail program. This has been the big barrier so far. Mike