privtool.1

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.SH NAME
privtool \- mail client with GUI and PGP support
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B privtool
[-f mail_folder] [window system options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B Privtool
("Privacy Tool") is intended to be a PGP-aware replacement 
for the standard Sun Workstation mailtool program, with a similar user 
interface and automagick support for PGP-signing and PGP-encryption. Just 
to make things clear, I have written this program from scratch, it is
.B not
a modified mailtool.
.PP
.B Privtool
currently provides a choice of three different user interfaces (chosen
at compile time) which are XView, Motif or Gtk+. It also supports
three different methods of achieving public key encryption & signing.
These are PGP, PGPTools library or GnuPG. 
.PP
When the program starts up, it displays a list of messages in your 
mailbox, along with flags to indicate whether messages are signed 
or encrypted, and if they have had their signatures verified or 
have been decrypted.
.PP
When you double click on a message, it will be decrypted (requesting
your passphrase if neccesary), and/or will have the signature checked,
and the decrypted message will be displayed in the top part of the
display window, with signature information in the bottom part. The
mail header is not displayed, but can be read by pressing the 'Header'
button to display the header window. In addition, the program has
support for encrypted mailing list feeds, and if the decrypted
message includes another standard-format message it will replace
the original message and be fed back into the display processing
chain.
.PP
When composing a message or replying to one, the compose window has
several check-boxes, including one for signature, and one for
encryption. If these are selected, then the message will be automatically
encrypted and/or signed (requesting your passphrase when neccesary) before
it is sent. You may also select a 'Remail' box, which will use the
Mixmaster anonymous remailer client program to send the message through
one or more remailers.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.B Privtool
is quite customisable through its user interface. It does, however,
understand one option apart from any options which get interpreted
by the windowing system being used.
.PP
.TP 15
.I \-f <mail_folder>
specify the initial mail folder to load.
.SH BUGS
.PP
No MIME, IMAP, or POP support.
.PP
Please report any problems to the current maintainer, Glenn Trigg, at
.IR <ggt@linuxfan.com> .
.SH NOTES
More extensive documentation is provided in html format as a part of
this package.
.br
Try pointing your browser at
.I file://usr/doc/privtool-0.90/user_guide1.html
.br
You may get lucky!
.SH AUTHOR
Initial work was performed by Mark Grant
.IR <mark@unicorn.com> .
.br
Motif and Gtk+ interfaces were writted by Glenn Trigg
.IR <ggt@linuxfan.com> .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mail (1).