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Wayne Pascoe Author

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145 points

PGP with Snow Leopard ?

All,

I currently use GPGMail ( http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html) for signing and encrypting my e-mail, but from what I've read, the author has no current intention to port this to Snow Leopard.

Can anyone recommend an alternative solution for encrypting, reading encrypted messages and signing / verifying signatures with Mail.app ?

If not, could anyone recommend another mail client with the following features:
- Solid IMAP support and offline caching
- PGP / GnuPG support
- Support for random signatures
- Support for multiple mail accounts

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 12:50 AM

109 replies

lord2014

Level 1

0 points

Oct 15, 2009 12:35 AM in response to ms53

I had the same problems.

MB Pro5.1 on Snowleopard.
I'm running the Mail App in 32 bit mode, because of some other plugin which is not working in 64bit mode. If I activate your plugin I'm not able to send any mail and cannot close the window as some other people mentioned here.

If I change the mail app to run 64bit mode everything works as designed.
Maybe this helps, on the one hand as an interim solution, on the other hand as hint to find the bug.

Stephan

dff

Level 1

1 points

Oct 16, 2009 3:33 AM in response to Dan Dawson

Thanks that did the trick.

Also thanks a lot to the author.

and fu apple for making this so hard for everyone

dff

Level 1

1 points

Oct 22, 2009 10:49 AM in response to dff

I can encrypt and decrypt with this plugin but the message will show up as an attachment like this http://imagebin.org/68795

How can i make it show the message in the message window instead of having to open the attachment?

Thanks upfront.

Nov 7, 2009 3:22 AM in response to dff

I have exactly the same situation here… Any help?

Nov 9, 2009 8:11 AM in response to rockabilly

Sorry to have to ask. But how exactly do I get the bundle into the mail app? Have never had to do this before, so I'm really a novice, when it comes to this, and didn't find any help on this on the internet. Could you help me learning how to do this?

dankogai

Level 1

0 points

Nov 9, 2009 7:24 PM in response to rockabilly

So sad Mac OS v10.6.2 and Mail 4.2 disabled it again 😟

Dan the Crippled GPGMailer

dankogai

Level 1

0 points

Nov 9, 2009 7:40 PM in response to dankogai

Seems like newer version is available which fixed the problem w/ Mail 4.2

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/112247/GPGMail.mailbundle.zip

I'm happy again now 🙂

Dan the GPGMailer

earcap

Level 1

0 points

Nov 9, 2009 11:56 PM in response to dankogai

Does not work for me.
The 1.2.1 version did (see page 3, bottom). But with the update to 10.6.2 this plugin was moved by SL because it was claimed to be not compatible.
The newer plugin version does not show any buttons in Mail.
So sad.....

earcap

Level 1

0 points

Nov 10, 2009 12:41 AM in response to earcap

Huh, suddenly the new plugin works.
Don't ask me. All I did was restarting a couple of times and writing an email to someone whose public key I have. Thanks to the developer. I'm happy again.

benzoo

Level 1

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Nov 10, 2009 2:41 AM in response to dankogai

dankogai thanks for the url with recent version of GPGMail!

Can you tell where you've got this file, I mean is there a web page or something where I can get the latest versions?

Nov 10, 2009 11:58 PM in response to Community User

Given that Apple distribute security alerts and updates using PGP signed documents/packages, it does seem a little odd that the bundled Mail client doesn't support this technology out of the box and, even more so, that they insist on breaking the APIs on every minor update.

Nov 11, 2009 2:09 AM in response to dankogai

Thank goodness there's an update for this. And it works nicely with 10.6.2 here. That was one of the few painful gaps in Snow Leopard. Still I wonder why the information about these new versions and all the development are only appearing on forums here and there. Neither the GPGmail homepage nor the Sourceforge project page give any structured information. This would be important, after all we're trusting this plug-in with confidential data...

Nov 11, 2009 1:26 PM in response to Peter Nuding

So how did you get it to work with 10.6.2?? Every time I start Mail.app it says that the bundle is incompatible and moves it out of the way. I rely on GPGMail. I was screwed by PGPCorp once too often (their license that is for "all upgrades" is only for all MINOR REVISION upgrades. Major revisions are not included -- not stated clearly. And I can't go to Thunderbird/Enigmail for signing because I sign ALL my messages, and I sort of detest Thunderbird. 🙂

Any other ideas?

Nov 11, 2009 11:46 PM in response to David Simmons

Seems like newer version is available which fixed the problem w/ Mail 4.2

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/112247/GPGMail.mailbundle.zip

I'm happy again now

... worked for me on 10.6.2 🙂

Nov 12, 2009 4:54 AM in response to fooflington

Just installed on my MBP under Snow Leopard (10.6.2).

No problem so far, seems to be very reliable.

Thanks a lot for the work.

PGP with Snow Leopard ?