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Sebastian Beßler <sebastian <at> darkmetatron.de> writes: |
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> Mail encryption is, as far as I know, something that works on the |
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> client-side only. The mail server doesn't see the encryption, encrypted |
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> mails contain only text, just like every other mail. |
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OK let's ignore the mail server portion. Your basically implying |
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that encrypted mail handling from the server, does not matter if |
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it's an exchange server, or *nix, like postfix.... |
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As an example. |
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Look at the situation where a person is using only MS technology |
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and has no access to support(input) on their client software nor the |
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MS exchange server (big corp for example that assumes the world |
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only uses MS software). Maybe they can make a few setting changes |
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only in Outlook to get encryption working between a MS (Outlook) |
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system and my Gentoo system using pgp and thunderbird? |
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> If may answer has nothing to do with your problem, please give me more |
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> information what you have in mind. |
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I do not have a problem. I have assumed that encrypted mail between |
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a given client software on a gentoo system, will not work with windows. |
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Is this assumption incorrect? |
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Or it's just install whatever I want (mail client on gentoo) and it will |
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auto-magically exchange encrypted mail with outlook on a windows machine, |
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behind a MS Exchange server, regardless of what the MS admins |
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do on their side? |
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I assumed that is not that easy (my default experience with MS), |
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and things have to be coordinated, like most MS issues, to be |
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able to exchange encrypted mail between a gentoo and MS workstation.... |
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Nothing to it, or massive issues on the MS side? Obviously, |
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making changes on the gentoo workstation client, is easy.... |
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What I would really like is to be able to exchange encrypted mail |
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with any MS user. That, I'm sure with entail pointing them to |
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documents on how to set up the software on the MS (outlook) side. |
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Links for MS help? |
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??? |
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A general discussion at this point, not a specific solution. |
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My googling only reveals dated discussions along these lines |
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or information that is not useful. |
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James |
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