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Remailer Tips
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   This is a collection of tips for using Mailcrypt's remailer support.

   * Read and understand the `.remailers' file.  If the service at
     kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu is gone by the time you read this, track down
     a comparable service elsewhere.  (Ask around in
     `news:alt.privacy.anon-server' or, as a last resort,
     `news:alt.security.pgp'.)  Check the documentation (`C-h v') for
     the variable `mc-levien-file-name' for a description of Levien
     format.

   * The relevant remailer properties are `pgp' (required), `hash'
     (required if you use hashmark headers), and `post' (required for
     posting to USENET).  Remailers which do not support PGP won't even
     show up in the completion list.

   * The only remailer which needs special properties (e.g., posting,
     hashmarks, pseudonym support) is the last one in a chain.  Any
     remailer can be used at the beginning or in the middle.  So if you
     find a few remailers which support the feature(s) you require, and
     you always use them at the end of your chains, then you can be
     confident that even the longest chains will work.

   * If you update your `~/.remailers' file, you can reread it with
     `M-x mc-reread-levien-file'.

   * Remember the natural order of operations.  First you compose your
     message.  Then you insert your pseudonym with `C-c / p'.  Then you
     insert your response block with `C-c / b'.  Then you sign (`C-c /
     s') or sign and encrypt (`C-c / e') the message.  Then you rewrite
     it for a remailer or chain (`C-c / r').  Then you send it.  All
     but the first and last two of these are optional.  (Well, strictly
     speaking, they are all optional, but you get the idea.)

   * Find and read some of the excellent remailer documentation
     available on the Internet.  For some good starting points, see
     Note: References.