> What's current best practice for people using gmail who want client side encryption? Use OpenPGP and access GMail through IMAP with a mail user agent (MUA) s

> What's current best practice for people using gmail who want client side encryption? Use OpenPGP and access GMail through IMAP with a mail user agent (MUA) such as Thunderbird with Enigmail, or one of the other mail clients that support OpenPGP (either directly or by means of a plugin). By doing this you strictly separate mail transfer (which GMail does for you) and encryption (which you and the receiver perform locally with OpenPGP key-pairs). GMail sees only strongly encrypted data for which it has no keys.