From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 18:28:05 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: PGP to PC mail integration
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Mike Ingle writes:
> Instead of messing with user interfaces, you set the POP and SMTP
> addresses of your mail program to "localhost". You run locally a Visual
> Basic program that sits on ports 110 (POP) and 25 (SMTP) listening for
> connections. The VB program is configured with the addresses of your
> real SMTP and POP servers, and acts as a proxy.
> 
> When your mail program retrieves POP mail, it goes through the VB
> program, and the VB program decrypts any PGP mail it sees. When it
> sends mail, the VB program encrypts any mail it has a PGP key for the
> recipient of.

Would you be stuck if you wanted to send something unsigned and/or 
unencrypted ?

-Lewis					"Shit !" -Pres. Richard M. Nixon, 1973