Encrypting Data with Guard

The settings can be found in the following sections:

• Guarddefault settings

• Password Management (PGP)

• Password Management (S/MIME)

• Your PGP Keys

• Recipient PGP Keys

• S/MIME

• S/MIME Recipients

• Advanced

Also see: Searching for Settings

Guarddefault settings

• Compose options. 

  • Encrypt draft emails when composing encrypted emails. Defines whether email drafts will be saved encrypted when composing an encrypted email.

  • 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 by default.

  • Default to using S/MIME for signing and encryption. Defines whether S/MIME is used for signing and encryption by default.

• 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.

Password Management (PGP)

• Contains functions for changing or resetting the PGP password.

• See Password Management

Your PGP Keys

• Contains functions for managing your PGP keys.

• See Managing own PGP keys

Recipient PGP Keys

• Contains functions for managing PGP keys from recipients.

• See Managing PGP keys of recipients

Advanced

• Show advanced settings for composing mail. 

  • If this setting is enabled, you can define whether to use Mime or Inline as PGP format when sending encrypted emails.

    See Sending encrypted emails

• Default to using PGP inline for new mails. 

  • Defines whether PGP/Inline is used for encryption by 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.

• Autocrypt setting. 

  • Configures the usage of Autocrypt for incoming emails. Allows you to transfer Autocrypt keys to other clients.

    See Encrypting Email Conversations with Autocrypt

• Email cache. 

  • 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 Do not keep emails decrypted..

• reset options. 

  • Delete password recovery. Deletes the function for recovering a lost password.

    Warning: If you remove the function for resetting the password, you can no longer reset your password. If you forget your password afterwards, there will be no possibility to decrypt your encrypted data.

    See Removing the password reset function

Parent topic: Encrypting Data with Guard