In Germany the DE-Mail Act sets minimum standards for secure electronic communications. A Standard mail client must have special features to support De-Mail. For this purpose Micro Focus developed the DE-Mail Plug-In.
At the moment the DE-Mail Plug-In is available in version 0.94 at Cool Solutions (https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/cool_tools/de-mail-plug-fur-groupwise/). The Plug-In is functional but has a lack of usability, for example special DE-Mail messages are not recognizable. Equal Plug-Ins for Microsoft Outlook have a much better look and feel.
Because DE-Mail is a legal obligation for government the Plug-In is important to users in Germany. So I vote for further development of the Plug-In.
by: Uwe B. | over a year ago | Windows Client
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Agree, we need this. This is a requirement for thousands of users in Germany.
Our current plan is to integrate this directly into the client and we hope to be able to deliver that in the 1H of 2017 in a GroupWise support pack.
Thank you, Mike.
Just as we need the DE-Mail-plugin, it's required to get a plugin for EGVP.
EGVP ist another secure mail-transportation-system, that is used by german administrations, justice and lawyers. EGVP has a lot of features to prove the integrity of the message and the sender.
It would be nice if GroupWise could handle EGVP messages as well (with special icon and so on) but I think EGVP is a bit more complex as DE-Mail is and one time more a "german problem".
When working with DE-Mail GroupWise just has to handle normal SMTP messages interpreting the special DE-Mail keywords in subject or x-header lines. The keywords and x-headers are standardized by a few certified providers offering DE-Mail-Gateways.
If GroupWise should handle EGVP then GroupWise has to learn either the needed OSCI communication or you have to use a central 3rd party gateway which converts the OSCI messages to SMTP messages like the DE-Mail-Gateways do it. When using a gateway someone has to define a standard which subject keywords or x-header lines define such an EGVP based SMTP message.
In short words:
Having EGVP in GroupWise would be nice but first let's have a working DE-Mail solution with the features and comfort the DE-Mail plugins for Outlook offers since years.
Thanks Mike for realising this "german problem". I think a working DE-Mail integration will keep some customers away from switching to Exchange/Outlook. Hope we see the result soon.
This is available in 14.2.2 which is now shipping