From: Mike Bailey <bailey@computek.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 21:35:10 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Deployment
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On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Bill Stewart wrote:

> > > So, anyone want to volunteer to port Privtool to Windows ?
> > Uh, pardon my ignorance, but what is privtool, and why is it
> > a good thing to port it to windows?
> > (As compared to the task of integrating PGP into microsofts
> > mail tool.)
> 
> It's an open-system mail tool resembling Sun's mailtool with PGP support added.
> Open-system tools are one of those vanguard things :-)  
> (So are convenient GUI-development tools.)
> I no longer have a nearby Sun machine to play on, so I haven't played with it,
> but if it's got a well-done interface it's worth porting or stealing concepts
> from to include in other systems.  I've heard that Microsoft's new mail tools
> are far less brain-damaged than the Microsoft Mail I've grown to know and hate,
> which assumes any message that's more than a few lines will be an attached
> document with maybe some optional intro and leftover mail headers,
> and chokes on messages with more than 30K of text in the body (choking badly
> on more than 64K).  (Apparently, part of the reason for this evil is the fault
> of Visual Basic and/or Visual C++, which are convenient GUI development
> tools...)
> 
> On the other hand, integrating it into Free Eudora for Windows would be
> pleasant,
> if that's doable (I forget it source is available.) 
> #                                Thanks;  Bill
> # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com

Does Privtool support POP3 ??

-Mike

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