AUGD: AOL Mail in OS X and Securely Signed E-Mails
AUGD: AOL Mail in OS X and Securely Signed E-Mails
- Subject: AUGD: AOL Mail in OS X and Securely Signed E-Mails
- From: Paul Richards <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:54:19 -0500
On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:24 PM, lynn Wegley wrote:
Paul, please post that for all of us.
Okay, Lynn. I was figuring it wasn't a topic for the list really, but
I'll take a chance on being on listmom's bad boy list.
;-)
I have been able to get Mail to download AOL, but not send.
First off, Mr. William Lane, President of Macintosh Computer Club of
Calgary, sent me a link to an interesting Mac Assistant that sets up
Mail, Safari, iChat and Address Book to take over for AOL's own
software. It apparently does the importing and everything. Here's the
link:
ftp://download.newaol.com/mac/AOL_Service_Assistant.dmg
Failing that, the direct settings which you should use in Mail
supposedly are as follow:
Choose between standard mail settings, or encrypted or SSL mail
settings:
Standard
Server: imap.aol.com
Port: 143
Encrypted or SSL:
Server: imap.aol.com
Port: 993
Outgoing Mail Settings:
Outgoing e-mail uses an SMTP server and requires authentication, so
you'll need to log in with your AOL® Screen Name and password. Choose
between:
Standard
Server: smtp.aol.com
Port: 587 or 25
Encrypted or SSL:
Not yet available
Also explain how we got a "Security" line on our email that said
"Signed"
"We" meaning on mail from me? Are those things getting through the
AUGD list re-mailings??? I didn't think they were supposed to do that.
If you look at the raw source of my e-mail messages you should see
that they carry an electronic signature file. In my case at present,
it certifies only that my e-mail address really is my e-mail address
and that the message has not been altered. In more elaborate forms,
it could also certify that the person I claim I am is the person
associated with that e-mail address. If anyone were to alter my
message in any way after that signature file has been generated and
attached, it would fail the security check that validates it for the
recipient.
Here's more explanation and a how-to:
http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Power_User_Monday_Tip_of_the_Week/226
A word of caution: .Mac users have something similar available to
them for use with iChat. Our current UG president did a little
experimenting and managed to get his iChat certificate to sign his e-
mails too - sort of. Some of his mail recipients started getting
blank messages while others were able to read them just fine. We
determined that people using Panther's Mail and earlier were the ones
who got the blanks. Readers with Tiger's version and Entourage had no
problem reading the messages. Bottom line: the .Mac certificates are
for iChat only.
Not many people I know of are using these things. When Mail queries
the signature of an incoming message, it puts a copy of the
certificate in your keychain file. My file includes my own assorted
certificates plus ones for Daniel East and my UG's president. (Not
his .Mac one. He got one from Thawte, as I did, after his vanishing
mail fiasco.)
There is a "competing" standard that is similar which is based on the
open source version of PGP, called GnuPG. It is largely popular in
the linux world. It is not supported by OS X Mail out of the box, but
it can be added on to work with Mail seamlessly. I also have that
installed, but I've had it turned off since I finished experimenting
with it. It worked fine for me too.
Paul Richards, Ambassador
Syracuse Macintosh Users Group
Syracuse, NY, USA
http://www.iSMUG.com
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