Remailer Introduction

Remailer Support

Remailer Chains

3.2: Remailer Quick Start

To use Mailcrypt's remailing facilities, you need to configure them first. Begin with the following steps:

1. Do `finger rlist@publius.net > ~/.remailers'. This will create a Levien-format list of remailers in the file `.remailers' in your home directory. Mailcrypt will parse this the first time you access a remailer function.
2. Look over the `.remailers' file and find the ones you want to use.
3. Add their PGP public keys to your keyring. You can finger pgpkeys@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu for a list of remailer public keys. Note that Mailcrypt requires that you have the public keys of all the remailers you want to use, and therefore that the remailers support PGP encryption.

Note: These steps need only be done once, although repeating them from time to time is probably a good idea, since remailers come and go.

Now test the remailer functions. First compose an outgoing Email message (using C-x m, for example) addressed to yourself. Type C-c / r. Choose a remailer; use TAB to get completion on its name. The buffer will be rewritten for anonymous mailing through that remailer.

Remailer Introduction

Remailer Support

Remailer Chains