Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I use forwardmail which initially just offered forwarding, but then added POP3 and IMAP4.
I also have a public GPG key so that quite a few email senders will automatically encrypt it before transmission.
Both solve a different problem that proton/tuta do though.
How does the public GPG thing work? It automatically sends it and is used transparently to the recipient or do they have to set something up?
I am not sold on Tuta TBH. No auto-forwarding to another address, and the apps feel funny in a way that’s hard to describe. Will give them more time to decide.
Generate a key and you publish your public key… somewhere, I forget: I think GPG’s directory. At least the gpg site has instructions: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
Thanks for the link! I can’t see how to do this in Tuta and Tuta doesn’t support standard clients because of their encrypted email inbox. Annoying, I have to pick between the email provider not being able to read my emails, or the email being encrypted in transit unless it’s between Tuta accounts.
I guess if I use a non-E2E encrypted service and add a GPG key in my clients then I guess this protects it from the provider? But then I have to pick a provider who aren’t dicks. Why can’t companies just not be dicks.