Fwd: [Macgpg-users] GPGMail & Snow Leopard

[R.A. Hettinga]

...aaaaand now GPG.

So, Snow Leopard is crypto-less?

Cheers,
RAH
What? I shoulda said sans-crypto?
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> From: Benjamin Donnachie <benjamin at py-soft.co.uk>
> Date: August 28, 2009 7:44:09 PM GMT-04:00
> To: "@lists.sourceforge.net Macgpg-users at lists.sourceforge.net" <macgpg-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> >
> Subject: Re: [Macgpg-users] GPGMail & Snow Leopard
>
> 2009/8/28 Levi Brown <levi at grokers.net>:
>> I'll ask the inevitable... Can we expect a new version of the plugin
>> which is compatible with Snow Leopard's Mail.app?
>
> Do you mean GPGMail?  If so, then I'm afraid the answer is no -
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=999042
>
> "Posted By: davelopper
> Date: 2009-08-26 08:31
> Summary: GPGMail & Snow Leopard (10.6)
>
> Dear Users,
>
> Current version of GPGMail (1.2.0) is NOT compatible with coming Snow
> Leopard's Mail.
> New Mail's internals changed a lot, like it did with all major
> revisions of Mac OS X, and as Apple doesn't give any documentation nor
> any support for such an unsupported plugin, developers have to work by
> trials and errors. Based on my experience of previous compatibility
> work, I can estimate that the workload to make GPGMail compatible with
> Snow Leopard is at least 40 hours, for me.
> Unfortunately I no longer have spare time to do that work (I've always
> been working on GPGMail during my spare time, not during my work
> time).
> Some people proposed their help, but at this time no one has been able
> to find enough time to actually do the work. For unexperienced people
> it will take much more time to do it.
> In consequence, there will not be an update of GPGMail for Snow
> Leopard in the coming months, not even a beta version.
> If serious people want to do the work, I will gladly try to help them
> as much as I can; just contact me.
>
> I'm sorry to leave you without GPGMail on Snow Leopard; until someone
> does the port, you'll have to rely on Thunderbird and its Enigmail
> plugin".
>
> Any queries should probably be directed to the GPGMail list -
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=gpgmail-users
>
> Ben
>
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