When will Eudora support signed email?

(Created on 2004-02-05.  Updated 2004-02-07)

Signed email gives you some confidence that the person whose email address is on the email actually sent the email. PGP is very similar in this respect.

When will Eudora support signed email? Using S/MIME "Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions" which is based on the PKCS #7 data format for the messages, and the X.509v3 format for certificates. See Using S/MIME e-mail by Dartmouth Computing  for more information. Or What is S/MIME?

Netscape, Mozella, Outlook and Outlook Express currently nicely support this standard. As do many others.

Here's a nice quote. "Almost every mailer except Eudora supports S/MIME."

At the What is S/MIME? it states"S/MIME has been endorsed by a number of leading networking and messaging vendors, including ConnectSoft, Frontier, FTP Software, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Lotus,
Wollongong, Banyan, NCD, SecureWare, VeriSign, Netscape, and Novell." Qualcomm owns
Eudora. So where's the support?

I couldn't find anything regarding S/MIME at eudora.com. But interestingly enough I found a 1998 press release at Qualcomm stating that they had support for PGP and S/MIME.  QUALCOMM’s Eudora Pro Supports Two Industry-Standard Email Security Protocols And apparently 4.0 did have a plugin. So they used to support it.

I've sent in a feature request but who knows if they will listen.

I will upgrade my email software the day I read this support exists.   I've been using Eudora since I received it on a floppy from my ISP in '95. Upgraded versions of course. I don't want to use anything else.

Tony Toews

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