-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 nbecker(a)fred.net writes: Thanks, that does appear to be cleaner than what I did. Andrew Gierth also sent his solution for FSF Emacs which was geared to not disturbing an existing earlier setup: ;; add personal library directories to start of load-path (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/.Emacs") (cons (expand-file-name "~/.Emacs/gnus-5.4.67/lisp") (cons (expand-file-name "~/.Emacs/mailcrypt-3.5b7/lisp") load-path)))) and this in .gnus: (require 'mailcrypt) (mc-setversion "gpg") (setq mc-gpg-user-id "andrew(a)erlenstar.demon.co.uk") (setq mc-pgp-user-id "andrew(a)erlenstar.demon.co.uk") (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'mc-install-read-mode) (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'mc-install-write-mode)