GPGMail is an open source and free Apple Mail plugin that brings the functionality to sign, verify, encrypt and decrypt mails using the OpenPGP standard.
Once started, Mail has a new submenu, PGP, in its Message menu, containing the following items:
· Decrypt
· Authenticate
· Encrypt New Message
· Encryption Keys: Use Passphrase Encryption, Automatic Choice, Choose..., (list of public keys)
· Sign New Message
· Signing Keys: (list of secret keys)
· Force Use of PGP-MIME
· Refresh Keys
There is also a new submenu, PGP Keys, in menu View, allowing you to choose on-the-fly which attributes must be displayed for keys.
Finally, in menu Window, a new item PGP Key Search displays a PGP key search panel when clicked.
Mail also has a new Preferences panel GPGMail in which you can:
· choose your default PGP key
· choose when to encrypt/sign/decrypt/verify, etc.
Here are some key features of "GPGMail":
· Is part of the GPGTools Installer.
· Sign, encrypt, decrypt, and verify all your mails.
· The bundle is 64-bit and Snow Leopard ready.
Limitations:
· Unread count goes out of sync.
· OpenType fonts are not displayed.
· Automatic update not working the system wide installations.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Disables excessive logging which might have written sensitive information to /var/log/system.log* in some cases.
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