Encrypting with Evolution *Off Topic*

Steve Ovens steve_ovens at linux.com
Tue Sep 15 13:12:45 UTC 2015


I have been using Evolution exclusively since 2008. Love it, though I have
no business requirement for encryption so I haven't tried that
functionality. I am, however watching this with interest

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Leo Francisco <lists at boywithwings.co.uk>
wrote:

> Is anyone out there in our community actually using Evolution as their
> main email client? I cannot get it to work well for me any which way I try.
>
> Leo
>
>
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> On 15/09/15 09:41, Patrik Bubák wrote:
>
> Thanks but that's not what I needed to know. I'll clarify a bit:
>
> I wanted to test out my encryption following this tutorial
> <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/>, but I couldn't exchange encrypted
> emails with Edward the bot, because I was unable to send him my public key
> in a way he would recognize, since Evolution doesn't have the Enigmail
> plug-in or equivalent that I would know of.
>
> Moreover there's no proper tutorial on the net on getting encryption work
> in Evolution apart from the basic stuff. I understand, that in order for it
> to get working I need the other party's public key, but then again
> where/how do I store it? Evolution doesn't seem to be as advanced in this
> as Thunderbird, or am I wrong?
>
> On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 12:19 -0500, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote:
>
> Not video but should help
>
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> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-encryption.html.en
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> Sent from my iPhone
>
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> On Sep 14, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Patrik Bubák < <bubapa at privacyrequired.com>
> bubapa at privacyrequired.com> wrote:
>
>
> Anyone here using Evolution with PGP? I managed to get it to sign my
> emails, but I cannot seem to get it to encrypt messages and would need
> advice/direction to some sort of (video preferably) tutorial.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> Learn about how to protect yourself on the internet
> <https://prism-break.org/en/>
> Why it is important to encrypt your communications
> <https://freedom.press/encryption-works>
> An easy how-to guide to PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
> <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/>
>
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