[GLLUG] evolution & mail clients

[Caleb Cushing]

ok evolution. no systray Icon. not acceptable e.g. not usable. kmail.
has crashed twice and I can't seem to get mail to send reliably.
unacceptable. on to thunderbird.

On 10/12/06, Daniel Hedlund <daniel at digitree.org> wrote:
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > It would be great... if it weren't a server (theres not mine)
> > subscription service.
>
> Yes, it would, but I just realized that GPG encryption using javascript
> like I had previous suggested might be a bit difficult, at least without
> a customized browser plugin.  My reasoning is that javascript shouldn't
> be able to access the filesystem to read your GPG key to do the
> encryption or signing.  You would have to manually copy and paste it
> into a dialog box.  If it was a Firefox plugin or extension, there would
> be no need to write it in javascript as it could be just written in C or
> whatever native language an open source GPG library is already written.
>   It probably wouldn't be that hard to write a shell on top of the GPG
> library that would allow you to encrypt or sign an arbitrary bit of text
> that is highlighted.  For example, you could design a firefox tensions
> where store your keys locally, you could select all the text in a text
> area using your mouse or <ctrl>+a, click on a little icon in the status
> bar, select the "sign selected", and it would sign the selected text and
> allow you to paste the signed text back in.  Optionally, it could
> automatically paste the signed text, by automatically trying to delete
> selected and then paste for you.  I don't have time to write this, but
> someone else might think it's a good enough idea.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel Hedlund
> daniel at digitree.org
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