Mailsmith-GPG Scripts 0.3 review

Mailsmith, the e-mail client developed by BareBones, had native PGP support in its MacOS 9 version, but this feature is still not available under MacOS X.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 46K Developer: Alessandro Ranellucci Price: $0.00 Updated: 09 Jan 2006

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Mailsmith, the e-mail client developed by BareBones, had native PGP support in its MacOS 9 version, but this feature is still not available under MacOS X. The reason is that there is actually no MacOS X port of PGP.

However, thanks to some developers, the open source alternative to PGP (GPG, which is fully compatible with the former), has been ported to Darwin.

Mailsmith-GPG Scripts is an Applescript package for Mailsmith to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify messages using GPG.

What's New:
added Artistic License to the package;
all operations are done without using filesystem (no more Temp directory, much faster, less buggy);
merged Decrypt and Verify scripts in a combined, "intelligent" one;
added a combined "Sign & Encrypt" script;
Encrypt now supports multiple recipients (automatically taken from "To:" field);
Encrypt now uses -v option in gpg instead of -q, to get verbose output;
partially fixed a bug that made scripts fail when key name contained a single quote char.