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¿ 14/3/2007 - Microsoft Entourage and GPG Working

For those of you who are trying to get MacGPG working with Microsoft Entourage and have tried the EntourageGPG files which don't work for the newer versions of Mac OS X.  Here is a short tutorial that gets this functionality working.  It is actually very simple to do.

  1. Download MacGPG
  2. Follow this MacGPG tutorial to get all your keys working and installed
  3. Install GPG Tools
  4. Start GPG Tools and tell it where to find MacGPG
  5. Go into Entourage
  6. Write a new mail message
  7. Highlight the text that you want to encrypt
  8. Go to the Entourage Menu
  9. Go to "Services" -> "GPG Tools" -> "Encrypt" or "Encrypt & Sign"
  10. Double click the recipients you want to be able to read it
  11. Click OK
  12. Enter your own passphrase
  13. Click OK
  14. And voila!  Your encrypted text will now be in your email in place of the text you highlighted.
You can then reverse this process by doing the following:
  1. Highlight the PGP message (include the ---START--- and ---END--- lines)
  2. Go to "Entourage" -> "Services" -> "GPG Tools" -> "Decrypt"
  3. Enter your passphrase
  4. Click OK
  5. And now your text is back to normal.

But how do you decrypt an incomming message?  Do the following:

  1. Open the Email you want to decrypt by double clicking on it
  2. Click on the the edit icon that looks like this:
    Picture of the Entourage Edit Icon
  3. (Now you are able to edit the message)
  4. Highlight the PGP message including the ---START--- and ---END--- lines
  5. Go to "Entourage" -> "Services" -> "GPG Tools" -> "Decrypt"
  6. Type in your passphrase and hit OK
  7. And now your message is decrypted.

At this point you can now do two things.  Either close the message and save it which will keep the unencrypted contents stored in your mail folder, or for the truly secretive, close and cancel changes which will discard the decrypted message and keep only the encrypted message in your folder.

I hope this helps.


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¿ 26/3/2007 - Thanks

Posted by Anonymous
That really worked for me. Thanks a lot!
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¿ 5/8/2007 - doesn't work for me

Posted by Anonymous
Your instructions don't work for me. You say to tell GPGtools where to find MacGPG. Huh?

And when you say to highlight the text you don't say to copy it onto the clipboard. Huh?

I'd sure like this to work.
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¿ 5/8/2007 - Getting MacGPG and GPGTools talking

Posted by mikel
Heya anonymous,

First, make sure you have MacGPG installed properly, go here for the "howto"

http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/

The GPG Tools Readme goes over how to install it. The readme is here: http://www.tomsci.com/gpgtools/Readme.html

Note, it says:

"You must have already installed Mac GPG before running this software. All your keyrings must also be present for Gpg Tools to do anything useful."

So that is the trick.

Make sure your MacGPG is all installed and working, follow the readme and the web page, get all this working, it isn't too hard.

Then, install GPG tools and follow it's readme.

Once both of these are working, pickup my steps of the tutorial and it should all work.

Regards

Mikel
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¿ 9/11/2007 - Thank you

Posted by Anonymous
Excellent post. I've been trying to wean a few addicts off of Entourage, but at least I can now get them encrypting with GPG/PGP until they upgrade in the future.
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