Hello, Background: I use Thunderbird as my email client, but the mail servers of another (my isp). What I want is an email setup that interoperates with encrypted emails from various unix and windows based servers. (maybe dreaming here?)
So I'm research on interoperability of eningmail, pgp, and such, but everything I find is dated; citatiions appreciated. Q1. Is there a method that will all me to set up my email client(s) using various mail servers as their smtp_host that start out with really good encryption/dig-signatures and then auto fall back down to lesser secure option with the last one being ordinary email services? Q2 Windows.... I'm not too versed in Windows. I try to avoid all things windows. Unfortunately most of my activity (emails etc) is with folks that like BG and the Redmonds..... So what I thinking is there are few (MS)sites that actually have some sort of auto-negotiations scheme to try for the very best security between email servers (nix-doz) and then fall back down the scale to a circa RFC822 type of negotiated arrangement. But most MS sites are brain-dead on there mail server and try hard to not be interoperable with *nix as with all things Redmond? At the very least, maybe there is a tool(script) to run that will ferret out the offered secure email exchange options with a given mail server, categorize them, and at least use secure email correspondences with those mail servers that have been flushed out? Dunno. I'd settle for secure email with the majority of sites I regularly exchange emails with. It's been a while since I set up a mail server, but, if that (postfix) is what I need to do, then just tell how (overview) the packages you'd use, or is this part of postfix? Q3 Any documents, comments, or guidance is most welcome. James
