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.
Anyway, the thing I added to the guide is how to initiate communication with the bot:
Tags: Software Cryptography Gnus Emacs
Comments
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 ofgpg2
?– 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: “… andgnus-init-file
(‘~/.gnus
’ by default)”As for the GPG version, I am using gpg. Perhaps on Debian version 2 is only available as gpg2?
– 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:
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 PrimarySocialPromotions 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]
– Alex Schroeder 2016-01-27 20:26 UTC