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Hi readers,

Tonight I was looking for a secure email service. Not a basic mail provider which offer SSL (IMAP/POP/SMTP) connexions, but also that every email and attached file is store in a secure way. I have found the following website :

• PKI is hiden through the website. So you can only send and read the email body using the website
• sendinc service. It seems that you can only send email through the website. It is free and ,restricted to send 20 emails a day
• thruinc
• zsentry and zmail The free version is restrict to send 5 email (no limit about receiving)
• opolis runs only on Windows and MacOS.You need to install a software. It is free to use today.
• s-mail service, no software to install.
• husmail is not so good according to the wikipedia article
• a short list of various secure email solutions
• These ones provide PGP / GPG/ PKI like facilities:
• safe-mail, a free account gives you 3MB of mailbox, with a sign certificate,
• comodo secure email free for personnal use, installs a software, runs only under Windows. It seems to be a PGP / GPG kind of solution, but easier to set up and to use for the mass.

And some reason about using such services:

• using secure mail service is easier for the mass than using GPG / PGP

You can also add a GPG proxy on your local windows PC:
GPG Relay for windows

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Hi all!

Still looking for a light footprint, fast email client under windows, I have done some googling and here are what I have found:

• i.scribe / in.scribe. It seems to be efficient, light and still in development. The free version, i.scribe, can only support one account. I have not achieved to configure gmail using IMAP protocol. So wait for another update.
• Becky. It seems very efficient, light, powerful. But it is 40$. You can try it for free for 30 days.
• Mulberry. It doesn't seem to be still in development. Open source, light and efficient email client. It fails in fetching all my email from my gmail account. But it is very fast! There is a nice review about it there
• The Bat!. It seems as good as Becky.
• sylpheed. I'm using this one daily. It is light with many features, but to me it is slow on windows (v2.6.0). I will install the version 3.1 this week end. UPDATE: i have moved to the 3.1 version. It is as light as usual, works, and maybe a little bit faster.
• Alpine mail, a full CLI mail client.
• Mahogany mail, last realase august 2006. Not supported : PGP.
si.mail. Not supported : IMAP, PGP.
• an interesting service to secure and follow email use : opolis

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