[Enigmail] Configuring default Key Selection

[Simon Loewen]

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Thank-you everyone for the answers.  I shall try these this evening.
I have already created the keys without a passphase.

Regards, S.

Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
| Simon Loewen wrote:
|> Hi,
|> 	I have used enigmail for a while now, and would like my siblings to use
|> this feature for all our email.  A prerequisite is that it is
|> transparent for them.
|
|> I tried to configure enigmail to encrypt by default for all addresses
|> that it has a valid public key for.  If not, then it would send in clear
|> text by default. In each case, the user would not be prompted for
|> anything (other than the initial passphase for the private key when
|> decrypting).
|
|> I configured Key Selection to use:  By email addresses.  However,
|> whenever I sent the email to an address that has public key it did not
|> encrypt by default.
|
|> I configured Key Selection to use:  By pre-set rules. I set-up a rule
|> for two email addresses that have public keys.  This encrypted the email
|> by default, but if I entered an address that did not have a key nor had
|> any rule set-up for it, then enigmail returned a prompt asking what
to do.
|
|> I would like Enigmail to :
|
|> 1) encytpt by default emails that it has a public key for.
|> 2) if there is no public key then by default it won't encrypt the email.
|> 3) all emails ought to be signed by default.
|
|> At no point ought the user be prompted for anything.
|
| You should find the answer to your question in this forum entry:
| <http://mozilla-enigmail.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=68>
|
| In order to get all mails signed, you should furthermore enable the
| options "Sign non-encrypted messages by default" and "Sign encrypted
| messages by default" in the OpenPGP setting of the account management
| (Tools > Account Settings).
|
| Furthermore, since you don't want the users to be prompted for anything,
| you might want to create keys without password protection and enable the
| option "Never ask for any passphrase" in OpenPGP > Preferences. Please
| note that I consider keys without passphrases as quite unsafe and I
| would discourage the use of such keys wherever possible.
|
| -Patrick
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