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Encrypting Email Conversations

Reading encrypted emails

To be able to read an encrypted email, the Guard security password is required.

How to read an encrypted email:

  1. Select an email with the Encrypted icon in the list view. In the detail view, the notification Secure Email will be displayed.

    Click on Read email. The Password needed window will be displayed.

    Note: If, when having entered your security password the last time, you set that Guard should remember the security password, the email will be displayed in plain text immediately.

  2. Enter your Guard security password.

    You can define how long the security password should be remembered by Guard. To do so, select a time range in Ask for password again.

    In the Guard Default Settings section of the Guard settings, you can define a default value for the time range.

  3. Click on Confirm. The content is shown in plain text.

    If the email includes attachments, functions for using the attachments' decrypted or encrypted versions will be displayed.

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Parent topic: Encrypting Email Conversations