From: Marcel Beck mbeck@access.ch
To: YAM Newsletter yamnews@egroups.com
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:01:22 +0200
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(c) 1995-1999 by Marcel Beck  http://www.yam.ch
Subject: [yamnews] YAM News No. 7

     *YAM News Letter No.7*                    May 25th, 1999

Welcome to the seventh issue of the YAM News Letter. These mailings
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*Contents*
  New products
  YAM and PGP 2.6
  YAM and PGP 5
  Current versions

_New products_

*YGM* ("You've Got Mail") is a small and fast POP3 mail checker that
reads the required settings from a YAM configuration file. You can
tell YGM to start YAM or another program when it detects new mail.

*LocalServer* is a package that allows you to test your e-mail client by
setting up a local POP3/SMTP mail server. It's based on AmiTCP 4.0 demo.

Both products can be downloaded from http://www.yam.ch/archive.html

_YAM and PGP 2.6_

YAM works with both versions of PGP, but personally I prefer version
2.6.3 because it's smaller, much faster and better integrates into
YAM than version 5.
First of all, install PGP 2 and create your key pair using pgp -kg.
The PGP2 directory has the following structure:

PGP2 (dir)
   bin (dir)
      pgp
   config.txt
   language.idx
   language.txt
   pubring.pgp
   randseed.bin
   secring.pgp

Assign PGP: to the PGP2 directory, then set the enviromental variable
PGPPath to 'PGP:'. In YAM/Configuration/Security, set the PGP Path
option to 'PGP:bin/'. If you want to edit or read encrypted messages
that have been written by you, switch on the 'Encrypt to self' option.

In config.txt, the following settings should be made:

Language = en
EncryptToSelf = off
PubRing = "PGP:pubring.pgp"
SecRing = "PGP:secring.pgp"
RandSeed = "PGP:randseed.bin"

_YAM and PGP 5_

First of all, install PGP 5 and create your key pair using pgpk -g.
The PGP5 directory has the following structure (please note that there
are two copies of randseed.bin!):

PGP5 (dir)
   bin (dir)
      pgpe
      pgpk
      pgps
      pgpv
   keys50 (dir)
      pubring.pkr
      randseed.bin
      secring.skr
   language50.txt
   pgp.cfg
   randseed.bin

Assign PGP: to the PGP5 directory, then set the enviromental variable
PGPPath to 'PGP:'. In YAM/Configuration/Security, set the PGP Path
option to 'PGP:bin/'. If you want to edit or read encrypted messages
that have been written by you, switch on the 'Encrypt to self' option.

In pgp.cfg, the following settings should be made:

Language = en
EncryptToSelf = off
PubRing = "PGP:keys50/pubring.pkr"
SecRing = "PGP:keys50/secring.skr"
RandSeed = "PGP:keys50/randseed.bin"

Check the validity of the keys on your public keyring with pgpk -e and
validate them by signing with pgpk -s <userid>. You can't send encrypted
mail to someone whose key hasn't been trusted.

Please note that there's a bug in PGP5: If a message is encrypted for
more than one recipient (including you), PGP doesn't set an error code
as long as there is a valid key for at least one of the recipients.
For example, you try to encrypt a message for John and yourself:
There's no valid key for John, but there's one for you and PGP doesn't
tell YAM that encryption wasn't successful. The resulting message can
be read by you, but not by John!

_Current versions_

*Full release*  YAM 1.3.5 (17.09.1997)
Available from http://www.yam.ch/archive.html or from any Aminet
site.

*Public beta*  YAM 2.0Preview7 (13.03.1999)
Available from http://www.yam.ch/preview.html

*MUI Classes*
BetterString.mcc 11.3 (09.02.1999)
Listtree.mcc 17.53 (21.07.1997)
NList.mcc 19.97 (30.11.1998)
TextEditor.mcc 15.5 (12.02.1999)
Toolbar.mcc 15.5 (21.12.1998)

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