How to use the Guard settings:
Click the
icon in the menu bar. Click on .You can also click on
in the App Launcher.The Settings window opens.
Click on .
in the left pane. Click onThe following settings are available:
Default to send encrypted when composing email. Defines whether a new email is encrypted by default.
Default adding signature to outgoing mails. Defines whether a new email is encrypted per default.
Default to using PGP inline for new mails. Defines whether the PGP encryption is done PGP/Inline as default. Only use those settings if the email client of a recipient does not support PGP. With PGP/Inline, the recipient can decrypt the message nevertheless. If you use this setting, you can not send emails in html format.
Remember password default. Defines the time range default for Guard to remember the password. You can change this default when being asked for your Guard password.
Contains functions for changing or resetting the password.
Advanced settings. If is enabled, the following settings and functions will be available.
Defines whether a decrypted email is kept in the browser cache in a readable format when displaying another email or changing to another groupware app.
To remove the decrypted email from the browser cache, enable
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Managing own keys, public keys or Autocrypt keys.
See Keys
section
Configures the usage of Autocrypt for incoming emails. Allows you to transfer Autocrypt keys to other clients.
When sending encrypted emails, there are additional options.
Usually, the key management functions are not required for sending or receiving encrypted messages. Those functions can be useful though under the following circumstances:
You want to use your Guard PGP keys in other E-Mail clients, e.g. in local E-Mail clients.
You have PGP keys from other PGP applications. You want to use those keys in Guard.
You have an external contact's public key. In order to send encrypted messages to this external contact or verify received signed messages without having to access a key server, you want to import the partner's public key into Guard.
You want to provide your public key to an external contact in order to allow the external contact to send encrypted messages to you without the need to access a key server.
The following options exist:
Opens the Your Keys window for managing your own keys.
button.Opens the Your Keys window for managing public keys.
button.Opens the Autocrypt Keys window for managing Autocrypt keys.
button.Parent topic: Encrypting Data with Guard