[pmmail-list] PGP/PMMail question

[Sorin Srbu]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:23:47 -0500, John Swartzentruber wrote:

>Yesterday I set up some keys and am playing with the security stuff in
>PMMail. One thing I can't find is how to add a public key for someone
>who doesn't send it to me attached to a message. For example, if I go
>to http://www.keyserver.net/en/, I can look up the key for someone, but
>I don't see how to add that to PMMail. I see that keys are stored in
>the address book, but I don't see any way to add one there directly.
>
>Am I missing something, or is PMMail missing something? I did check the
>Help file, but either it isn't there, or isn't indexed in a way that I
>could find it.

AFAIK, you  need to have PGP installed. THe keys are added to this
app, and PMM then uses the PGP-keydb to decrypt. At least that's
how it works in windows. I use Pmm v2.20.2717 and PGP v8.0.

HTH.



BW,

Sorin

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