Posterous is a blog service that gets you. I post via email and my favorite tool for that is my email client. In fact even if my browser is open and I feel the urge to scratch I still have my desktop configured to send email through the desktop email client. I use Ubuntu 10.04 and Evolution as the default email client. Posterous integrates well with both.
Encryption is the topic of week. I wrote about it in a related post here. While encryption is a very good idea, doing it and doing it every day as part of your work flow is another thing. My view is that if you're already using an email client then it is easier, simpler and more convenient to adopt encryption. That is not the case if you're using a webmail service. If you are using the browser to check, compose and send your email, what are your options? The answer is: it's complicated. Looking for a way to do encryption with Google Chrome and Gmail, I found this. I also read that Google just released code for email encryption as open source. But it's a long way to being used by end users. The extension for Google Chrome works fine if the recipient also uses Google Chrome. But I went ahead and check this on Evolution.
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