My son has gone over to PGP on his windows gear & Gmail. Hardly the most Security conscious system, but I have to cope

On Slackware (14.1), what should I read, and install? Am I correct in thinking GPG is a better option? I am currently using domains under mail.com for email. Has anyone had any experience interfacing with them?

On Linux we have gpg indeed.
I use Thunderbird for reading emails, both on Windows and on Linux. I installed the "enigmail" plugin (available both for Windows and Linux btw) which calls gpg to transparently en- and decrypt emails.
There's also several GUI based GPG key management programs in Slackware if you need one. Kleopatra comes to mind.
I also use gpg with alpine. For en/decrypting emails in (al)pine you need a script called "pinepg".

About the mail.com service, I can not give you any good advice.

For graphical based GPG there's kgpg - very easy to use and sits in the panel if you wish it. But even if you don't want to use a graphical program for GPG, the command-line is actually relatively easy.

I use Claws mail with GPG and it works superbly.

I also can't help with the mail.comn thing, sorry.

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Thank you.
I have a suspicious of the utility of any programming beginning with ' k' or 'g' because they require KDE or GNOME.Both wrestle with the system for control, can have separate configs, libs, etc. KDE in particular is slow t start.
I use XFCE, offered by Slackware as a 'Low Cholesterol Window Manager.'


I note both of your recommendations for GPG. For me, console is fine. Mail.com is webmail, and they haven't catered for encryption AFAICT. I intend to have a go, but was going to draw on experience, if there was any.

GPG works perfectly on the command-line. With Thunderbird, use the Enigmail plugin.

http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/.../GPG-HOWTO.txt

Cheers,

Niki

Here is a possible issue: in order to use Mozilla Thunderbird or any other email client with GPG, you will need to have a direct access to the mail.com servers, using the IMAPS and SMTPS protocols.

But according to their support page, this access require a premium account: https://help.mail.com/en/applications/imap.html

Once you get that access, you should be able to use your mail client and then use GPG properly.

Very Interesting. Mail.com is losing favour fast. They offer me premium, but if I opt for it, they tell me it's not available in my country (Ireland).

I tried to take a screenshot of mail.com's listing. Its not allowed by the app. I see his messages in plain text, Underneath each of them in a bold font is:
Yet I see only the plain text. It looks as if it has implemented decryption but that I send plain text.