Get an account
The email service is currently invite only. To get an account, you must use methods of contact on the home page to reach the admins of the service, and request an account. You must provide a valid PGP key to associate with your account for recovery purposes, otherwise your request will be disregarded. ETA for a reply to your request may vary, but should usually take no longer than 24 hours. If you want to choose your own password, send it encrypted with PGP, OMEMO, or OTR, otherwise a random one will be generated for you. Webmail is not provided by syn.rip anymore in order to encourage users to use local encryption, and to reduce potential attack surface. You will need to install and configure a local email client such as Claws Mail, (neo)mutt, or aerc. Or you can use whatever client you want, but it is recommended to use a free and open source one, and to avoid thunderbird.
Encryption
Although our server utilizes full disk encryption, its recommended to encrypt all your sensitive data and emails via PGP or other means. it is possible for a threat actor to, for example, dump our server’s encryption keys from memory, so unfortunately full disk encryption is not fool-proof, and its recommended you take your own security measures when sending or recieving confidential data.
Configuring the ‘Mutt’ email client
This section will go over configuring the mutt email client, aswell as connecting via Tor. You will have to configure IMAP and SMTP in ~/.mutt/muttrc. if the file and directory doesnt exist, you must create it.
IMAP:
set imap_user = [email protected]
set imap_pass = 'your_password'
set folder = imaps://[email protected]/
set imap_check_subscribed
set spoolfile = +INBOX
set postponed = +Drafts
set record = +Sent
SMTP:
set realname = 'Your Name'
set from = [email protected]
set smtp_url = smtps://[email protected]/
set smtp_pass = your_password
set ssl_force_tls = yes
set ssl_starttls = yes
if you want to connect via the Tor onion, replace any instance of mail.syn.rip with the anarchy onion (listed on the index page).
Add some color:
color hdrdefault yellow black
color quoted blue black
color signature blue black
color attachment red black
color message brightred black
color error brightred black
color indicator cyan black
color status blue black
color tree white black
color normal white black
color markers red black
color search white black
color tilde brightmagenta black
color index blue black
color index white black
Auto PGP:
set pgp_decode_command="gpg %?p?--passphrase-fd 0? --no-verbose --batch --output - %f"
set pgp_verify_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --verify %s %f"
set pgp_decrypt_command="gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --no-verbose --batch --output - %f"
set pgp_sign_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --armor --detach-sign --textmode %?a?-u %a? %f"
set pgp_clearsign_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --armor --textmode --clearsign %?a?-u %a? %f"
set pgp_encrypt_only_command="pgpewrap gpg --batch --quiet --no-verbose --output - --encrypt --textmode --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to 776C95F2D1EF177DCF42D348B821DA24CF66F6D9 -- -r %r -- %f"
set pgp_encrypt_sign_command="pgpewrap gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --batch --quiet --no-verbose --textmode --output - --encrypt --sign %?a?-u %a? --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to 776C95F2D1EF177DCF42D348B821DA24CF66F6D9 -- -r %r -- %f"
set pgp_import_command="gpg --no-verbose --import -v %f"
set pgp_export_command="gpg --no-verbose --export --armor %r"
set pgp_verify_key_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --fingerprint --check-sigs %r"
set pgp_list_pubring_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --with-colons --list-keys %r"
set pgp_list_secring_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --with-colons --list-secret-keys %r"
set pgp_autosign=yes
set pgp_sign_as=776C95F2D1EF177DCF42D348B821DA24CF66F6D9
set postpone_encrypt_as=776C95F2D1EF177DCF42D348B821DA24CF66F6D9
set postpone_encrypt=yes
set pgp_replyencrypt=yes
set pgp_timeout=1800
set pgp_good_sign="^gpg: Good signature from"
replace “776C95F2D1EF177DCF42D348B821DA24CF66F6D9” with your PGP fingerprint listed by
$ gpg -k
[keyboxd]
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pub ed25519 2024-06-03 [SC] [expires: 2026-01-02]
776C95F2D1EF177DCF42D348B821DA24CF66F6D9
uid [ full ] syn.rip <[email protected]>
sub cv25519 2024-06-03 [E] [expires: 2026-01-02]