[gentoo-user] Re: encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

[James]

Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:


> Google has many examples and step-by-step instructions for configuring Outlook
> to use SSL Certs (S/MIME), usually by the purveyors of all these expensive
> certificate services:

> http://www.globalsign.com/support/personal-certificate/per_outlook07.html

Hello Mick,

Exactly what I was looking for. Not just the part I included, but
your entire answer. Gmane get'[s fussy about including too much
previous text in responses. Sure, I've set up numerous email clients,
like Thunderbird and such on doze systems before (encryption or not); that's
a no-brainer. Outlook in a rigid corporate environment without the 
admin's help on that side..... interesting. If their spam filters
are too aggressive, it will most likely quarantine the incoming encrypted
files. A program of encryption, but makes files look like text to
spam filters, would be keen, but most likely crackable, due to the
limited char_set? Never tried this but hey, there is ALWAYS a way
to "skin the cat".......

But I have never tried to help an ordinary Outlook user get encryption working,
so as to exchange encrypted email, with their linux bretheran without their
Admin's involvement. Most admins at corps do not care, but they are understaffed
and only support what they support. So you have articulated some options where I
can help a generic corporate user setup and use encryption, without their
admin's involvement, which I guess is what I did not clearly explain in previous
posts, as the goal all along, using Outlook or other
MS based applications.

THANKS; for sharing your knowledge and view of the landscape.
I've got it from here.

James