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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, March 14, 2004 5:43:16 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Friday, September 19, 2003 11:18:02 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-A plugin for MozillaMail that provides support for [GPG]/[
PGP]
signing/verification and encryption/decryption.
+A plugin for MozillaMail that provides support for [GPG]/PGP signing/verification and encryption/decryption.
-See http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ for downloadable .xpi files. (Note - the plugin needs to be compiled with the same major version of gcc as your mozilla - RedHat 9 and other recent distributions use gcc 3, older ones use gcc 2).
+See [
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/]
for downloadable .xpi files. (Note - the plugin needs to be compiled with the same major version of gcc as your mozilla - [
RedHat]
9 and other recent distributions use gcc 3, older ones use gcc 2).
+
+enigmail becomes a part of the mail & newsgroups application. To install the .xpi file you have to be logged in as root. You can make it by becoming su in a x-terminal and than starting mozilla in the terminal (eg. mozilla or /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla ) or you can log in as root. Off course you have to close mozilla first. Both of the methods are a security problem, because the mozilla has root-rights, so it is better just to install enigmail (or any other plug-in offered at [http://www.mozdev.org]) and than to close mozilla and start as a normal user without administration rights. Instructions for configuring you can find in [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/configure.html]. It isn't real complicated. You can make new gnupg keys with enigmail or use you own. Enigmail makes "default" keys. So if you want to have a key with 2048 kb or an alternative crypting algorithm you have to make the keys "manual" with gpg
.
