I noticed that when the mute button is pressed that a file is generated in the muted folder consisting of the actor url and a md5hash of the url as the containing filename.
Does pressing the mute button cause the snac server to write data anywhere else or is it just this file in muted/?
If I delete one of those files does it unmute the actor link contained in that file?
Or will it mess something up if I delete a muted file?
You will need to design your own email client that works with encrypted attachment blobs instead of using the standard headers and body. This way you can send a hash, cipher, or blank line for the Subject, then let the client decode attachments to get the plaintext subject.
What you are seeking will not happen without re-designing how the mail client software interacts with the messages.
View it this way. Email is just data following a certain format and scheme. You can create a client that formats and interprets encrypted attachments without revealing any metadata about the attachments. Except for the MIME attachment markers, the rest of the body and subject can be blank. Then your client can perform whatever logic it wants to display the attachment as actual message.
With current email clients not having some custom interface, you can send encrypted attachments, and always use the same generic subject line and body. You are never going to stop idiots from forwarding plaintext, unless the client software is specially programmed to prohibit this. And then someone creates a plugin to circumvent it and we're back where we started.
This is one reason why in a corporate or business environment all installable software should be whitelisted only and require signatures from the administrator keys.
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Bitmessage hides non-content metadata and uses a flood mixnet to unlink sender and receiver from eavesdropper view.
There is no alternative for email. Email clients support PGP and that's it. PGP does guarantee authenticity of a message due to digital signatures. PGP does not hide metadata about sender and receiver.
If you want truly confidential communication you have to set up a private pipeline. If you are using a public paid or free email service, you have zero confidentiality. Even if your message is encrypted, the email operators know who you are talking to.
Schleuder is an encrypting mailing list manager with remailing-capabilities. Subscribers can communicate encrypted (and pseudonymously) among themselves, receive emails from non-subscribers and send emails to non-subscribers via the list.
Schleuder aims to be robust, flexible, and internationalized. It also provides an API to be used with schleuder-cli and/or schleuder-web.
I see questions about chat, communication, and forum solutions often enough that I figure I should write a descriptive post of several options to keep around for recycling. Since I don't know your exact needs I will describe three options here. Two options are very modern and has a lot of features and the third is very retro and simple text-based forum software with some cool privacy and federation features.
Delta Chat is a email-based chat app. I can use chatmail servers or email servers. It is end-to-end encrypted. (https://delta.chat/en/). If your correspondents have POP/IMAP/SMTP email accounts they can use DeltaChat.
Delta Chat supports group chats and in-chat apps that you can create. It also now supports audio/video calls however they require using a link-based service.
If you want video and audio calls through your own XMPP server, or just private chat, XMPP is the way to go. Movim is a very mature server application for managing a social and chat network based on XMPP protocol. (https://movim.eu/) Movim allows you to federate with other servers similar to how Mastodon servers federate, and it has more features not available in Mastodon, including video conferencing.
Movim has chat, blogs, chat rooms, and even screen sharing support.
If you want a public readable text-based forum without video or audio calls then Rocksolid Light is an option.
Rocksolid Light is a NNTP server with a web forum front end: https://novabbs.org. You can run a private or public node, and even a private or public federated network.
Rocksolid Light has several themes included in the distribution. Here is the same server software running with a very different front end theme: https://news.octade.net (username: 'guest', password is 'guest123' reversed)
You don't have to federate your Rocksolid Light server, but it you want you can federate it. If you federate it, you can send encrypted BBS mail messages between users on different domains. You can also compose encrypted PGP/Mime messages in a newsreader and post them encrypted to a newsgroup for that purpose, so your encryption keys don't have to reside on the server.
The bonus with NNTP is that users can read and post using a dedicated newsreader client that is threaded and has filtering and very compact message threading. You can also download all new messages at once and then read them and write the replies while offline.
Movim is a very highly developed option that includes everything including the kitchen sink, so if you want to grow into audio and video conferencing and federate blogs, it is a superior option. Movim has a very modern interface compared to Rocksolid Light. The advantage of Rocksolid Light is its old-timey simplicity for text-based discussion threads.
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This is also a good environ to release captured varmints, albeit it must be done in an area far from residential housing--such as a wilderness preserve or large state park.
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I would mix that seitan with a bit of sausage and pan fry it crispy on the outside then drizzle with maple syrup and serve with a couple of over-easy eggs.
Your injection of a pointless racial slur is the digital equivalent of standing in front of a packed auditorium and farting into the microphone. You deserve the stinky microphone award.
Your anti-melanist joke is not edgy or cool. It is just dumb. But you obviously don't care, as long as you can broker attention from it.
There is a better way to live; common courtesy; the golden rule. Look into that.
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