I installed Macintosh System 7 Pro (7.1.1) onto my PowerBook today. I'd heard that e-mail was part of the new package, but I was amazed to see how integral it is. When you start up for the first time you are asked for a userid and a password to protect your "PowerTalk Keychain". A mailbox and a "catalog" appear on your desktop; the latter is a list of entries in different domains (like AppleTalk, EtherTalk, etc.) so that you can authenticate yourself on all the places you exist with one login. E-mail comes free with the system and works automagically when multiple users install the new system. I haven't used a lot of this system since it's so new, but I sent this message because it heralds a new era of turnkey mail/network-identity. I'm investigating how this works with AppleEvents to see how PGP can be seamlessly integrated. A friend of mine went to the product launch at Apple and got a free "signed" RSA user identification voucher. I'd be very interested in hearing from others who have a clue about this stuff. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael S. Sattler msattler@netcom.com +1 (415) 358-3058 Digital Jungle Software Encrypt now; ask me how. (finger for PGP key) Evil will certainly triumph if good people do nothing at all.