[Remops] How to set-up yamn as remailer?

[Steve Crook]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:45:25PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote:
> 
> Sorry for asking again, but i still don't know
> how i or yamn generates the required remailer keys.

Keys are created automatically and periodically rotated.

The defaults are:
[Remailer]
Keylife = 60
Keygrace = 28

When a key is created, it will have an expiry date of 60 days in the
future.  When it expires, a new one will be generated.  After 60 + 28
days, the old key will be deleted.  You can set key life to short
periods if you want (E.g. 10 days) but try and keep a reasonable
Keygrace or clients will struggle to keep up with your rotations.

> And one more question, if you don't mind, once the
> remailer is set up how can yamn automatically contact
> your pinger, i.e. required settings in yamn.cfg, or
> does yamn uses the build in one, like the client without
> a yamn.cfg?
It downloads stats (pubring.mix and mlist2.txt) from the pinger and
stores them in the directory yamn is being run from.  This behaviour can
be modified with the following settings:

[Urls]
Fetch = true
Pubring = "http://www.mixmin.net/yamn/pubring.mix"
Mlist2 = "http://www.mixmin.net/yamn/mlist2.txt"

If you set Fetch to false (or "no"), stats won't be collected and the
remailer will expect you to supply them by some other means, such as a
local pinger.

> I will look at it tommorow, because now it's getting late.
Good luck!  Let me know when it's working and I'll add it to the pinger.
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