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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com> on 2001/09/28 05:25:04 UTC

Re: using James for encrypting/certifying mails

Paul,

I'd say James is very good for this as the "mailet" API to built for these transformations. I haven't heard of anyone integrating James with a AWT pop-up, but that seems like an interesting idea.

To see how to get the top text message for multiparts, check the AddFooter message since it appends a text to the top level text or html message. We're about to make a 2.0 alpha release, so you could check out the daily builds or wait a bit for the alpha release.

Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies
http://www.lokitech.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Sidnell
To: james-user@jakarta.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:20 PM
Subject: Idea: using James for encrypting/certifying mails

My problem:

1. I want to easily/swiftly sign my outgoing mails with PGP/GPG
2. Mail tool plugins for this are bad except for Outlook [Express]
3. I'll never use Outlook [Express] on a machine I value :-)

My Plan:

Put an SMTP proxy on my local machine. As outbound mails pass through, it pops up a dialog box asking me what action to take; either:

a) just send it.
b) certify it - it then asks for my password.
c) encrypt it, getting my pwd and using the recipient to identify which key to use.

It is of course slightly more horrid than this since it will have to decode the mime structure and just encrypt/certify the top level text part, but hey, that's what the JavaMail api is for...
(I've got a really nasty prototype that isolates the actual message from an ESMTP transaction by pattern matching on the \n\r\n\r<message>\n\r.\n\r and i've just realised that it's doomed to fail)

My Questions:

Is James a good platform for this?

I've been hunting for a good Java SMTP server with the ability to plug in transformation components and James is the best I've come across although it has "a few" more features than I need. A modified version of the remote delivery Mailet seems like the place to start.

Is this a mad idea?
Anything I've overlooked?
Might anyone else want this capability?

Thanks