
This can be done in either of the 2 ways below : By copying it Before doing that we must have the recipients public key in our settings so that the email gets encrypted with it. Now let’s send another email to Adele, but this time in an encrypted fashion. ********** *END ENCRYPTED or SIGNED PART * ********** Encrypting the email I have received your public key ID, described asīelow please find the public key of Here is the encrypted reply to your email. You should receive a reply within several minutes in the following form : ********* *BEGIN ENCRYPTED or SIGNED PART * ********* You can do this using the CTRL+SHIFT+S shortcut also. Before sending make sure you signed your email, by clicking on the Enigmail button and selecting to “Force Signing”. The address is “ ”.ĭon’t forget to attach your public key, so that “adele” can respond with an encrypted email, as mentioned above. Let’s first test if email signing works by sending a test email to “adele” the GNUPG robot, with any subject/message you prefer. Sharing your public key – when first mailing somebody be sure to add your public key so that the receiver can send an encrypted reply using your public key.Īfter opening a email composing windows, go to the top menu and select Enigmail – Attach my public key.Shift + WRITE will open a normal email composing windows, but editing will be done in plain text. To do this, instead of just clicking on the “Write” button, click it while holding SHIFT. Send emails in plain text – gnugp doesn’t work very well with HTML emails, so in order to avoid the hassle of making it work, send your emails in plain text.public/private key pair generated by enigmail.enigmail configured to not encrypt nor sign emails by default.thunderbird enigmail extension installed.
