Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla, SeaMonkey, and Mozilla Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG.
Main Features:
Encrypt/sign mail when sending, decrypt/authenticate received mail
Support for inline-PGP (RFC 2440) and PGP/MIME (RFC 3156)
Per-Account based encryption and signing defaults
Per-Recipient rules for automated key selection, and enabling/disabling encryption and signing
Two years back I had big problems with crashes of Thunderbird 2 because of Enigmail 0.9 when I was switching from Tiger to Leopard. I had to stop using Enigmail completely.
About Enigmail 1.1.2 on Thunderbird 3.1.2 and Snow Leopard I can only say good things. It works fine, no crashes anymore. Excellent tool.
The bad thing is, no one is using encryption nowadays! Even worst, most people using web mail. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo. They don't even know email programs. Strange times! Or I'm growing old.
The problem is that, the times when you really need encryption, like email communications with your bank, your lawyer, etc., it's either not available or would require training that it's not your job to provide. The casual use of encryption by open source geeks did not transfer to the mainstream, because their advocacy of it had no correlation with real world usage by normal people. It was too much about tin foil hats. Most folks don't care about encrypting everything, they only want to encrypt things that are truly sensitive or important. It's the barrier to that kind of selective use that's holding things back.
Since my upgrade from Tiger 10.4.11 to Leopard 10.5.2 Enigmail 0.95.6 freezes my Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 all the time when hitting Reply. And those mails are text-only and without any encryption.
On Tiger no problem at all, Enigmail runs perfectly. On Leopard PGP/GPG with Enigmail becomes unusable. Beware switchers!
This problem is already known in the Enigmail web forums. I hope there will be a solution soon.
This problem might only occur if you are running a PowerPC Mac, although I heard otherwise. A friend of mine with an Intel Mac has no problems at all.
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Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla, SeaMonkey, and Mozilla Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG.
Main Features:
Encrypt/sign mail when sending, decrypt/authenticate received mail
Support for inline-PGP (RFC 2440) and PGP/MIME (RFC 3156)
Per-Account based encryption and signing defaults
Per-Recipient rules for automated key selection, and enabling/disabling encryption and signing
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Big-Mac-XXL reviewed on 06 Sep 2010
About Enigmail 1.1.2 on Thunderbird 3.1.2 and Snow Leopard I can only say good things. It works fine, no crashes anymore. Excellent tool.
The bad thing is, no one is using encryption nowadays! Even worst, most people using web mail. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo. They don't even know email programs. Strange times! Or I'm growing old.
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Monkeyjunkey reviewed on 10 Oct 2009
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Find them here:
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download/nightly.php
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Big-Mac-XXL reviewed on 26 Apr 2008
On Tiger no problem at all, Enigmail runs perfectly. On Leopard PGP/GPG with Enigmail becomes unusable. Beware switchers!
This problem is already known in the Enigmail web forums. I hope there will be a solution soon.
This problem might only occur if you are running a PowerPC Mac, although I heard otherwise. A friend of mine with an Intel Mac has no problems at all.
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Webpatser reviewed on 11 Jan 2007
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Fishscale rated on 03 Mar 2012
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Monkeyjunkey rated on 01 Aug 2011
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