Re: GPG / GMail
On 09/06/10 09:37 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:41:39PM -0400, H.S. uttered:
>> On 08/06/10 10:39 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:08:11AM -0400, H.S. uttered:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I agree. In fact, if a mail client like TB or mutt can be used,
>> ^^^^
>>
>>>> there is nothing to beat that. However, FireGPG was excellent for people
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>
>>>> who use popular web mail services. They had nothing special to do other
>>>> than to set up their GPG stuff and install the addon and they were good
>>>> to go without having to change the way they read/composed emails.
>>>
>>> What makes you think Engimail is any more difficult?
>>
>> What makes you think that I do?
>
> Have you tried it?
>
> GPG with mutt or thunderbird isn't very difficult to set up. Engimal
> is useful for those that are more comfortable with an easy to use
> point 'n click interface and works just fine with TBird.
I realize that, I use both. But I think I already made that clear.
>
> So what's the problem? <shrug>
Okay, I will rephrase what I already mentioned in a different way. The
problem is two folds.
1: The users I have in mind do not use these clients. Also, they are of
the demography which cannot be made to switch without a lot of
difficulty. In fact, in some cases, the user is not likely to switch at all.
2: The users use various web mails which cannot be read via the mail
clients.
FireGPG was a pretty neat extension which got around both these problems.
--
Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding
newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just
filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without
ever having been read.
Reply to: