The document referenced is quite old and out of date. It describes MailSecure version 3.1.1 which did work, somewhat, with earlier versions of Eudora. I believe a colleague and I had it working with Eudora 4.x in my previous life with Divisions. MailSecure 4 was the last version I was aware of and it did not seem to support Eudora. In fact, I did a little testing last night and couldn't get it to work nor could I get the earlier version 3.1.1. to worth with Eudora 5 or 6.
However, hope is not lost. Eudora 7 has an S/MIME plugin which does allow use of the HeSA Location certificates to sign and encrypt. http://www.eudora.com/products/eudora/updater1.html. Sadly, it requires MS and IE for storage of the certificates but for you non-purists, this would do the trick for exchanging reports. Of interesting note, I found that the MailSecure app supposedly allows one to generate your own certificate and keys, then send it off to an authority to be signed. Of course, we know that is not HeSA's current policy. Jan Semi-Lurker >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Cheong >Sent: Monday, 22 May 2006 9:23 PM >To: General Practice Computing Group Talk >Cc: Oliver >Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Is Eudora able to use HeSA digital certificates? > > >At 11:36 am +0930 22/5/06, Oliver wrote: >>Another general practice to which I emailed a message encrypted with >>the practice's HeSA digital certificate (that they presumably >>obtained to use for Medicare Online Claiming) says: >> >>"Unfortunately we use Eudora for our email which is not supported by >>PKI. We will need to change programs >>to Outlook or similar." >> >>My brief reading of the Eudora specs online seems to suggest that >>Eudora should be able to use the practice's HeSA digital certificate >>and other X509 certificates, so perhaps the practice just doesn't >>know how to do this. >> >>Could anybody who knows whether Eudora can use HeSA's digital >>certificates please let me know? If it can, I will let the practice >>know that they need to RTFM or get help with setting Eudora up to >>use their certificate. > > From the HESA web site - page found in google cache after search >"HESA certificate eudora" > >Eudora >You must use an additional module like MailSecure to S/MIME enable >the Eudora mail client. Eudora will only use our certificates if it >has MailSecure or some similar software operating in conjunction. >Using Individual Certificate on an iKey in Eudora > >http://www.hesa.com.au/assets/Eudora%20-%20MailSecure%20Quick%20Sta rt%20v2.pdf There are several references on Google to divisional documentation suggesting that it does work - with instructions. Last I tried using S/MIME with Eudora with David Guest, it didn't work (but that was some time ago). Eudora is not as standards compliant as Thunderbird, but I prefer Eudora as my primary email client at home, since it has mostly been well behaved for me over the past 12 years. Haven't tried it with HESA certificates. Ian. -- Dr Ian R Cheong, BMedSc, FRACGP, GradDipCompSc, MBA(Exec) Health Informatics Consultant, Brisbane, Australia Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for urgent matters, please send a copy to my practice email as well: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PRIVACY NOTE I am happy for others to forward on email sent by me to public email lists. Please ask my permission first if you wish to forward private email to other parties. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.1/344 - Release Date: 19/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.1/344 - Release Date: 19/05/2006 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
