Re: Mail Plugin
Re: Mail Plugin
- Subject: Re: Mail Plugin
- From: Enrique Zamudio <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:11:04 -0500
- Organization: Nasoft
Scott Anguish wrote:
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On Monday, May 28, 2001, at 03:14 AM, Enrique Zamudio wrote:
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> Does anybody know how can I write a plugin for Mail.app? Is it similar
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> to the way plugins worked with the OpenStep/NextStep Mail.app, which
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> was inserting bundles in some special directory?
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Last I heard the plug-in architecture for Mail (which isn't defined
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anyways) was going to be removed.
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There are apparently some concerns for security issues.
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This sucks, but hopefully either Mail will evolve quickly enough to
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cover off the features we need.
Sucks big time, indeed. Well, how about a service? I could write an app that
handles and stores all the certificates, and if you get an email that you can
read, you select the text decrypt it with the right certificate when you send
(kind of like the NeXT version of PGP used to work, but using X.509 certs). It
wouldn't be so elegant and simple to use but we could have secure mail in OS
X.I noticed that Outlook Express doesn't handle certificates either (which
sucks even more), but Netscape does. But if what Steve said at the WWDC keynote
is true, then it would be better to handle certs directly instead of having to
run Classic apps. The service would also work for
encrypting/decrypting/signing/veryifing mail in other applications, so it could
be even a better solution (although sacrificing the ease of use).
eZL