Re: How To Improve This Group

On 2025-04-11, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-04-11 03:10, Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-04-10, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:03:21 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
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I use Claws-Mail, which was from a fork of Sylpheed.  I chose Claws-Mail
for its usable GPG intergration.
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Sylpheed has complete GPG integration without a plugin.
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Have you tried the current 3.7.1 version?
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Note:
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Sylpheed has released a 3.8.0 beta that has OAuth2 which
will allow reading/writing to Gmail servers.  Reportedly
it does not work too well -- but who in their right mind
would ever want to read/write from Gmail?
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I'll look at Sylpheed again.  I've been using ClawsMail for years, and
to be honest, I can't quite remember exactly why I chose it over
sylpheed. I *think* PGP was the reason, but I'm not too sure now.  Could
have been something else.
 
As for email, I will not use Gmail. I have a throwaway legacy hotmail
account, but my personal email is my ISP provided one.

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Might I suggest Posteo.de which integrates GPG in its system and which
is completely open-source. It used to be endorsed by the FSF. You can
encrypt the calendar, the contact list and any incoming e-mail even if
it wasn't already encrypted by the sender. It costs a whopping 1 euro a
month.
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I am paying a bit more than that for my current email service.  It used
to be part of my ISP's core service, but they've been bought out by a
larger company and subsequently have dropped their quality, and dropped
email.  Its now by a third party, but a local one.  And I get to keep my
email address, which I've had for over 20 years.  That matters to me
too.

Not sure I trust the Germans with my sensetive data.  I'd rather run GPG
locally.  Having an email client, and running it locally means its
encrypted before it leaves your machine, and the email service provider
has no hope of seeing the encrypted contents, even if under a court
order.

Thanks for the suggestion though.