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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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>NS Communicator (Mail) and PGP</H3>
<p><strong>From Cesar A. K. Grossmann on Thu, 28 Jan 1999
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Hi!
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There are a way to sign my communicator mail and news with PGP on
Linux?
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TIA
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Probably not in the current code. You could get involved
in the Mozilla project (<A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org"
>http://www.mozilla.org</A>) and
help their open source community add the desired PGP and
GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) support.
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Personally I prefer to use packages that are written
specifically as mail and news readers rather than trying
to "drive screws with a hammer" using a browser as a
mail reader and news cient.
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Of course I could be wrong. I don't use Communicator's
mail and news functions. However, I have to assume that
you looked at all of the relevant menus and dialog boxes
and didn't see any options in their UI. If that's the
case it seems very unlikely that there is some sort of
"hidden" interface to some "undocumented" features that
will give you PGP support.
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Of course you best bet would be to ask this question on
the Mozilla developers list. They know much more about
Netscape's Navigator (and presumably about Communicator)
than I will --- and they are the most likely to add the
features (assuming that they really aren't there).
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