Encrypting with Evolution
Tim
darkxst at fastmail.fm
Tue Sep 15 23:31:16 UTC 2015
On 15/09/15 18:41, 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?
gpg key management is handled by seahorse (The UI side atleast), from there you can use File->Import or Remote->Find Remote Keys to search
keyservers for the public key
>
> On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 12:19 -0500, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote:
>> Not video but should help
>>
>>
>>
>> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-encryption.html.en
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Patrik Bubák <bubapa at privacyrequired.com <mailto: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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