2016-01-23 Testing Encrypted Mail Setup

I’ve updated my guide, the Gmail Gnus GPG Guide (GGGG) to incorporate the latest addition to the FSF’s Email Self-Defense guide to free software-powered encryption. They even have a guide on how to help your friends and family, including talking points if want to make your case.

=> Gmail Gnus GPG Guide | Email Self-Defense guide to free software-powered encryption | guide on how to help your friends and family

Anyway, the thing I added to the guide is how to initiate communication with the bot:

1. send him your Public key

2. get his public key from a keyserver

3. how to set up a keyserver in order to achieve step ​#2

4. send him an encrypted mail

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The public (not private) key should be sent in point 1. Best regards, A.

– A. 2016-01-23 16:01 UTC

Aaaaargh!

– Alex Schroeder 2016-01-23 16:36 UTC

Thanks!

By the way, what’s the reason to use gpg instead of gpg2?

– AlexDaniel 2016-01-23 22:44 UTC

Also, it looks like it has to be ~/.gnus.el instead of ~/.gnus.

– AlexDaniel 2016-01-24 00:07 UTC

Hm, I think ~/.gnus is fine, according to the manual: “… and gnus-init-file (‘~/.gnus’ by default)”

=> according to the manual

As for the GPG version, I am using gpg. Perhaps on Debian version 2 is only available as gpg2?

alex@Megabombus:~$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.29
libgcrypt 1.6.4
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA, RSA, ELG, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

– Alex Schroeder 2016-01-24 00:15 UTC

Interesting. Also it would be great to know how to make gnus sort things in the right order by default…

– AlexDaniel 2016-01-24 00:35 UTC

Oh well. It seems like the idea is to have only unread messages visible by default. If you keep it this way then there’s no reason to change the order. Hmmmm.

– AlexDaniel 2016-01-24 01:37 UTC

I’m not sure if this approach is really useful. Gmail sorts messages into three tabs – Primary, Social and Promotions. Obviously I never read Social and Promotions, and I even ignore some messages in Primary. That’s the result:

=> https://files.progarm.org/2016-01-24-033741_154x97_scrot.png

In such case default settings in gnus are so alien. But I thought that it is how all people read their emails? Is there any way to get this Primary*Social****Promotions distinction in gnus?*

– AlexDaniel 2016-01-24 01:40 UTC

Not unless Gmail makes the tabs available via IMAP, i.e. via folders (like it does for labels). I don’t think this is happening. Apparently you can search for them but I don’t understand how you would use this from Gnus. ¹

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– Alex Schroeder 2016-01-27 20:26 UTC