What email client do you use?

[haggholm]

Since I’m on a security spree, finally getting my arse in gear to do what I should have been doing for a long time, I decided to also generate a new PGP key that actually matches my current email address and perhaps (wonder of wonders) actually sign email by default. I may or may not bother about encryption; it’s certainly a nice-to-have, but I’m trying to ease into good habits, and I want to read up more on backing up public keys¹.

What this means is that I am curious about what mail client you use, because people reading this post comprise a pretty hefty chunk of all the people whom I want to be able to read my mail. Since some mail clients (notably Microsoft clients) are a bit iffy when it comes to features like PGP/MIME, from what I’m told, it would be very nice to know what I can rely on recipients being able to receive…

[Poll #1420360]

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¹ Questions include:

• How do I back up all my known public keys to begin with? —Automatically, if you please. If I have archived, encrypted emails, I would very much like to keep keys around so I can read them…
• What happens when somebody expires a key, and I sync with keyservers? Does it stay in my keyring by default? What about revoked keys?

Comments

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

I use Apple’s Mail.app, even though it has been known (on frequent occasions) to, as the kids put it, “suck floppy donkey cock”. The GPGMail plugin for it is decent, though, and I’ve been quite happy with that. Personally, I think that a bundle/package/plugin to verify PGP signatures ought to be included with mail programs by default.