GNU Privacy Guard - Outlook Express Plugin
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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After almost two years and the fact that there is no guarantee that
it will work with the next Outlook Express version (or that the Express
version still exists), I decided to end the support for this project.
The 0.9.0 release will be the last release.

Since the 0.8 release there was minimal feedback and due to time
constraints it is impossible for me to continue. If you have a choice,
use a mailer with real OpenPGP support.


Installation
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To use the plugin a working GnuPG installation is *required*. If you
don't have GPG installed, please visit gnupg.org and read some manuals
about it. The easiest way is to use gpg4win to install GPG and WinPT.

Now you should unzip all files into a directory. Make sure that 
the GPGOE.dll and the GPGOEInit.exe is located in the same directory.
Now start the GPGOEInit program. You'll see a small new icon (lock) 
in the tasbkar. If there was no error message, the OE plugin is now setup 
properly. To quit the program and to unload the GPGOE plug-in you've to 
double click on the icon with the left mouse button.


Native language support
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Currently the following languages are supported:
German, Italian

In the case you want to translate GPGOE into your language, please contact
me. The amount of strings that need to be translated is totally
manageable so that the translation takes about just 30 minutes.


How to use the plug-in
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For now the plugin supports encryption, signing and decryption or to verify
signatures. There are *no* new icons in the OE mailer window. To encrypt a
message you've to add the S/MIME encrypt/sign buttons to the OE toolbar.
This is *required*. Now you can press one of the buttons to sign or encrypt.
If you click both buttons the message is signed *and* encrypted.

There are several ways to choose the recipients:

1. Use the OE addressbook and make sure that the email address of the
   recipients is equal to the user ID's from the GPG key.

2. Enter the recipients manually. Then a keylist dialog is shown when
   at least one of the recipients were not found and you can choose the 
   recipients which should use for encryption. It's also allowed to 
   select more then one.

Now we're at the point you get an signed or encrypted message. Open the
message and soon after you openend it, either a passphrase callback is shown
and you need to enter the passphrase or a dialog is shown for signature
verification. After the operation was successfull the plaintext is shown 
in a separate text viewer. Or in the case it was a signature, the signature 
status is shown.

If you've trouble to install or use the plugin, you can use the forum
at wald.intevation.org. But please, check the existing threads there
to make sure you questions wasn't already answered by someone else.


Hint
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The plug-in does *NOT* use any S/MIME procedures. It only uses the OE
buttons, which had the S/MIME description, to encrypt/sign text.
And as a logical result, you cannot use S/MIME and OpenPGP at the 
same time. If you want to use S/MIME again, just unload the plug-in.