commit a2f550965b278a6e490ce0cff82588e290afd282
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Author: Jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 19:53:47 +0200
manual section on sending anonymous emails
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@@ -806,9 +806,50 @@ maildirs: it will first pass all messages found through your filters,
refiling them to folders (even creating duplicates) and then prune all
the affected folders to remove the duplicates.
+It is possible to filter any maildir, also those coming from other
+programs of course. Just copy the maildir inside the $JAROMAILDIR
+directory (typically ~/Mail) and then refer to it by its name: all
+arguments to the filter command are relative to that directory.
* Usability tips
+** Send anonymous emails
+
+ Some people live difficult situations sometimes and are in need to
+ send anonymous emails: for instance those endangered by the
+ information they have, still in need to communicate it without
+ being traced. Just imagine being a whistleblower part of a corrupt
+ military organization, or a victim of mafia blackmailing, or a self
+ determined woman in patriarcal societies. Situations like those may
+ vary, still anonymity of communication is an important condition
+ for personal safety and integrity.
+
+ Anonymizing an email is not as simple as changing the From: field
+ of an email, since its headers will carry the history of the
+ envelope and server logs will be held by the various Internet hosts
+ interacting with its delivery. Often those hosts are run by
+ corporate organizations ready to sell the logged information to
+ anyone with the money to afford it.
+
+ To help these situations the MixMaster network exists since more
+ than two decades, regularly routing emails across a chain of
+ anonymizing servers that encrypt the envelope and delete logs,
+ making it very difficult to track the origin and identity of those
+ writing them. Anyway, such an operation requires long time and
+ sometimes even fails to deliver: better send multiple copies of an
+ anonymous email, then consider waiting one or two days before it
+ gets delivered.
+
+ Setting up MixMaster and using it is a fairly complex task, but
+ here Jaro Mail comes to the rescue making it easy for its users:
+ after composing your email just change the From: field to
+ *anon@mixmaster*. Our application will recognize that as a request
+ to send the email across the MixMaster anonymous network.
+
+ To change the From: field after composition, just when headers and
+ attachments are shown in Mutt, press *[ESC]* and then *f*, then
+ type the special sender address *anon@mixmaster* and press *[Enter]*.
+
** Zsh commandline completion
For Zsh users out there there is a completion recipe that can
