Re: [Roundup-users] Looking for a howto on encrypting email inbound to Roundup

[John R. <ro...@ie...>]

Hi Ralf (and others) :

I just committed some verbage on PGP/GPG setup. Can you look at:

https://github.com/roundup-tracker/roundup/commit/5c79282f52b53a9f7cf6e8bf4d1f8413befd3156

and see if anything looks wrong?

Thanks.

-- rouilj

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM Ralf Schlatterbeck <rs...@ru...> wrote:
>
> 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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