Re: Looking for a howto on encrypting email inbound to Roundup

On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 08:08:18PM -0500, John P. Rouillard via Roundup-users wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Does anybody have a howto on sending gpg/pgp encrypted email to an
> Roundup instance?

I had used this a *long* time ago but the details have vanished in the
mists of time .-)
The setup has a private PGP key for decrypting incoming PGP mails. And
it is supposed to have a bunch of public keys to verify incoming mails.
For this the 'homedir' in the [pgp] section is used, it has a public and
a private keyring. It plays the same role as the ~/.pgp directory of a
user. You can enforce incoming emails to be signed with the
'require_incoming = signed' setting. You can force outgoing mails to be
encrypted and you can define roundup roles for which PGP is used.
Incoming mails are always pgp-handled when it is turned on.

That's as far as I ever used this... but as said it is a long time ago.

> Frankly any docs on setting up Roundup for use with pgp/gpg would be
> useful as this feature is kind of useless without proper docs.

Yes I think so, too. These days pgp isn't used much...
When writing docs it might make a lot of sense to also update the tests
to really support what is written in the docs, last time I looked pgp
test coverage was minimal.

Kind regards
Ralf
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