You can setup encryption rules later on, which will enable you to always send encrypted emails under conditions you determine. This is not recommended as it is cumbersome if your recipient doesn’t support encryption.

Choose whether you want to encrypt all of your outgoing emails by default.

It’s best just to encrypt your emails to everyone you know who supports encryption. It is recommended not to sign all of your outgoing emails as it strongly links you to everything you send out via unencrypted email directly to yourself.

Signing does not encrypt emails - it places your digital signature on all of your outgoing emails to allow others to verify that you sent the email. Choose whether you want to sign all of your outgoing emails.If you have multiple identities, choosing to setup OpenPGP for all identities will use one key for all of them. Choose whether you want to setup OpenPGP for all identities or just for select identities, if you’ve created more than one identity in Thunderbird.Navigate to the new top-menu entry OpenPGP → Setup Wizard.Thunderbird will automatically install updates to Enigmail in the future. Linux users – It’s best to download and install the extension to get the latest one, rather than using one provided by your package manager, which is likely outdated. (optional) You can let Engimail generate a key pair for you, or you can generate an OpenPGP key pair manually.Install Enigmail and Run the OpenPGP Setup WizardĮnigmail is a Thunderbird extension that allows you to use OpenPGP encryption with your email.

If you already have a key, you should before continuing. In particular, you should ensure before you generate a key that you have gone through the OpenPGP Best Practices guide to configure your gpg client to generate a strong key because the defaults that come installed are not optimal. We recommned that you start by reading our OpenPGP Best Practices guide. Want to enhance your email security by learning how you can use OpenPGP with Thunderbird? With this short primer gets you started in no time encrypting and decrypting emails and verifying that emails you receive are from the people who you expect them to be. Install Enigmail and Run the OpenPGP Setup Wizard.

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