No go, my guess is that tiger envelopes cannot handle the fact that my ssl certificate is for server1.schierer.org not mail.schierer.org. I am not willing to use either IMAP or POP without ssl to protect the password for my account.

I see that the 0.7.5 version of Tiger Envelopes^[1] now supports IMAP and IMAPS. This is very good news. If it works correctly, I should finally be able to get my mom up and running using it, something that one of her friends has wanted very much.

Tiger privacy is a mildly cool idea, offering secrecy but not strong authentication. The idea parallels the name, to turn email in to a series of letters in envelopes instead of postcards. Normally I would prefer something stronger, such as gnupg (which I do have a key for, though I do not use it much currently), but for someone such as my mom, this is preferable. It will handle advertising its presence and setting up keys for her, which saves me the effort of trying to teach her.

Even though this quiz has been deemed entirely unscientific,^[1] it still managed to peg the fact that much of my family, and thus presumably my speech, comes from the north. I am not sure where it got the 5%Upper Midwestern from. I myself noted flaws in 3 questions, notably #10 where there was no correct answer for me, I had never heard of any of the three phrases. On a side note, I was visiting an aunt of mine on the eastern shore this weekend. She and my uncle retired there, but grew up and worked in the DC area. Her “Warshington” is much more pronounced than mine is.

“A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” —Mark Twain, “The Disappearance of Literature”