Mail Plugins
Mail Plugins
- Subject: Mail Plugins
- From: Enrique Zamudio <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:37:07 -0500
Does anybody know if there's an API for writing plugins for Mail.app? Is
it similar to the old API that Mail.app had in NextStep/OpenStep?
I want to write a plugin to allow Mail to "understand" X.509 certificates,
so that people can send and receive encrypted/signed mail. This shouldn't
be too hard since MacOS X is shipping with OpenSSL, of which I already
wrote a framework (very similar to one that's out there for OpenStep,
which is basically just a collection of all the headers and a link to the
libraries).
I would also like to know if anyone is interested in working on something
like this. I plan to write it and give it away for free. I already have
some objects that can use the RSA crypto functions included in OpenSSL.
On a related subject, I also want to write a plugin for ICQ so that people
can generate a key pair and send/receive encrypted (and even signed)
messages. This would run only on MacOS X, but I think it would be cool to
have this because it might encourage someone to write a similar plugin in
windows or better yet, we can show that it's easier and better to write
and use apps in OS X so that more people consider switching over... does
anyone have a clue how to do this?
eZL