The following options are available:
Sending an encrypted email. Only you and the recipients can read the email content.
Sending an E-Mail with a signature. The signature ensures that the recipient is able to recognise whether the E-Mail content has been changed in transport.
Sending an encrypted E-Mail with a signature.
How to send an encrypted E-Mail:
Click the
icon in the button bar of the email editing window.If you are not signed in to Guard, the window for entering the Guard security password opens. Enter the password.
A function bar will be displayed above the email text. A text will be displayed within the function bar notifying you about the encryption of the email.
Icons next to the recipients indicate whether the message can be encrypted for this recipient. If hovering over an icon, a description will be displayed.
In order to show further options, click on
in the function bar.In order to additionally sign the E-Mail, enable
.To enable The E-Mail recipient to send an encrypted reply, the recipient needs to have your public key. You can send your public key as an attachment. To do so, enable
.If Guard settings, you can set the PGP format.
is enabled in theBy default, encrypted email messages are sent in
format. Some older email clients only support PGP/Inline. If the recipient uses such a client, enable .Note: If you use
, you can not send E-Mail messages in HTML format.You can also use the
menu in the button bar to sign the email or to send your public key as attachment.Click on
.When sending to new recipients, a window is displayed that allows to send notes for opening the encrypted E-Mail to the recipients.
User interface:
Related topics:
Parent topic: Encrypting E-Mail Conversations