How to use the Guard settings:
Click the
icon on the right side of the menu bar. Click the menu item.Select .
in the side bar. Click onThe following settings are available:
Default to send encrypted when composing e-mail. Defines whether a new E-Mail is encrypted by default.
Default adding signature to outgoing e-mail messages. Defines whether a new E-Mail is encrypted by default.
Default to using PGP inline for new e-mail messages. Defines whether the PGP encryption is done inline by default. Only use those settings if the E-Mail client of a recipient does not support PGP. With PGP inline, the recipient can decrypt the message regardless. If you use this setting, you can not send E-Mail messages 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
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Advanced settings. Defines whether the Keys section is displayed. Those functions allow to manage your own or public keys. If is enabled, you can use additional options when sending encrypted E-Mail messages.
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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 partner's public key. In order to send encrypted messages to this external partner 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 partner in order to allow the external partner to send encrypted messages to you without the need to access a key server.
The following options are available:
Opens the Your Keys window for managing your own keys.
button.Opens the Your Keys window for managing public keys.
button.
Parent topic: Encrypting Data with Guard