From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3C8I-00040f-Ol for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:53:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 897841C070; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536541C070 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0181B40E3 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:51:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.539 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.539 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.060, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eRS2WoNWer9r for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DC51B4086 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3C6b-00044Z-Om for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:51:29 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:51:29 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:51:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110311 Gentoo/2.0.12 SeaMonkey/2.0.12) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 29b7f910464877076ca06e284ec3da14 Hello, Background: I use Thunderbird as my email client, but the mail servers of another (my isp). What I want is an email setup that interoperates with encrypted emails from various unix and windows based servers. (maybe dreaming here?) So I'm research on interoperability of eningmail, pgp, and such, but everything I find is dated; citatiions appreciated. Q1. Is there a method that will all me to set up my email client(s) using various mail servers as their smtp_host that start out with really good encryption/dig-signatures and then auto fall back down to lesser secure option with the last one being ordinary email services? Q2 Windows.... I'm not too versed in Windows. I try to avoid all things windows. Unfortunately most of my activity (emails etc) is with folks that like BG and the Redmonds..... So what I thinking is there are few (MS)sites that actually have some sort of auto-negotiations scheme to try for the very best security between email servers (nix-doz) and then fall back down the scale to a circa RFC822 type of negotiated arrangement. But most MS sites are brain-dead on there mail server and try hard to not be interoperable with *nix as with all things Redmond? At the very least, maybe there is a tool(script) to run that will ferret out the offered secure email exchange options with a given mail server, categorize them, and at least use secure email correspondences with those mail servers that have been flushed out? Dunno. I'd settle for secure email with the majority of sites I regularly exchange emails with. It's been a while since I set up a mail server, but, if that (postfix) is what I need to do, then just tell how (overview) the packages you'd use, or is this part of postfix? Q3 Any documents, comments, or guidance is most welcome. James