Mail Client Capabilities: PGP-related

Last updated: 2000-08-11

What's All This Then?

This document is an attempt at consolidating information about mail clients with an emphasis on whether they support PGP and PGP/MIME. The information is provided in the form of tables. There is one table per operating system at the moment.

This page is purely for informational purposes only. A scientific study was not conducted in determining its contents. Stuff may be wrong. It's a work in progress. You have been warned ;-) If you see problems, for the moment, I'd suggest mentioning it on the pgp-users mailing list. If you have additions or changes to suggest, I would appreciate it if you would provide URLs where appropriate. I have nothing against operating systems not listed here and am willing to add additional ones as I get more information.

Forget this Intro, where are the Tables?

• UNIX
• Windows
• Macintosh

Legend

[1] As far as the author knows, in order to process PGP messages it is necessary to install a program such as PGP or GNUPG in addition to the mail client. Not that this is technically a necessity -- it's just that I've never encountered a mail client that didn't have this requirement. Exception: apparently, The Bat! has an internal PGP implementation.

[2] If something is marked "None" it doesn't mean that you can't process PGP messages manually via the clipboard or some other "manual" mechanism.

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UNIX

Windows

Macintosh