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<head><meta name="description" content="Enigmail guide" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Thunderbird,Icedove, Enigmail,GnuPG,gpg" /> <meta name="author" content="Mika Suomalainen" /> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <link rel="canonical" href="http://mkaysi.github.com/articles/guides/GPG/Enigmail.html"> <title>Enigmail guide</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../tyyli.css" /></head>
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<h1 id="quick-enigmail-guide."
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>Quick Enigmail guide.</h1
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><h1 id="what-do-you-need"
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>What do you need</h1
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><p
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>This depends on your OS. You should also read my previous guides about <a href="GPG.html"
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>GPG</a
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> and <a href="../Thunderbird-Icedove.html"
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>Icedove / Thunderbird</a
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>.</p
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><h2 id="debian-based-distributins"
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>Debian based distributins</h2
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><p
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>You need at least packages icedove or thunderbird and enigmail, but I recommend you to install gnupg2 and pinentry packages too.</p
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><blockquote
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><p
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>aptitude install thunderbird enigmail gnupg2 pinentry-curses pinentry-gtk2 pinentry-qt4</p
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></blockquote
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><p
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>NOTE: In Debian Thunderbird is called Icedove and the package is icedove.</p
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><h2 id="mac-os-x"
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>Mac OS X</h2
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><p
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>You need <a href="http://www.gpgtools.org/"
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>GPG-tools</a
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>, <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/"
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>Thunderbird</a
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> and <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/home/index.php.html"
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>Enigmail</a
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></p
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><h2 id="windows"
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>Windows</h2
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><p
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>You need <a href="http://www.gpg4win.org/"
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>GPG4Win</a
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>, <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/"
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>Thunderbird</a
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> and <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/home/index.php.html"
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>Enigmail</a
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>.</p
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><h1 id="running-the-enigmail-wizard."
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>Running the Enigmail wizard.</h1
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><p
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>If Enigmail wizard doesn't appear by itself, open it manually from OpenPGP (menu) --> Enigmail wizard.</p
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><p
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>NOTE: Allow wizard to do changes, which it wants.</p
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><h2 id="enable-viewing-messages-in-original-html."
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>Enable viewing messages in original HTML.</h2
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>You probably want to see the HTML in case the message has been sent using HTML.</p
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><p
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>You can see the messages in original HTML easily. Open View (menu) --> Message body as --> Original HTML.</p
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><h2 id="if-the-wizard-fails"
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>If the wizard fails</h2
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><h3 id="sending-plaintext"
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>Sending plaintext</h3
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><p
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>This is documented in my <a href="../Thunderbird-Icedove.html#sending-utf-8"
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>Icedove / Thunderbird guide</a
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>.</p
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><h3 id="signing-by-default."
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>Signing by default.</h3
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><p
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>Open Edit --> Account Settings --> OpenPGP security and select "Enable OpenPG support (Enigmail) with this user information". Then select "Use specific OpenPGP key" and press the "select key" button. Now just select your private key.</p
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><p
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>After you have selected the key, I recommend you to select the first and the second boxes, which are about signing.</p
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><p
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>Remember to do this for multiple identities. Select the account and then click the "manage identities" button.</p
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><h2 id="sending-utf-8"
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>Sending UTF-8</h2
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><p
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>I have documented this in my <a href="../Thunderbird-Icedove.html#sending-utf-8"
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>Icedove / Thunderbird guide</a
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>.</p
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><p
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>This only changes the charset line to UTF-8 or removes the mentioning of charset in signature.</p
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><h1 id="testing-that-everything-works"
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>Testing that everything works</h1
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><p
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>Adele is PGP email bot. You can send email to it and it will tell you if it can decrypt your email or is it signed.</p
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><p
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>You can get the PGP key of Adele by running</p
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>gpg2 --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 92AB3FF7</p
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><p
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>Just send your email to adele-en@gnupp.de and it will reply shortly.</p
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><h1 id="sending-pgpmime-instead-of-pgpinline"
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>Sending PGP/MIME instead of PGP/INLINE</h1
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>PGP/MIME puts the signature to signature.asc ataachment and PGP/INLINE into "mess" in the bottom of email.</p
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><p
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>WARNING: This might not work with some mailing lists (for example Ubuntu, Mozdev and GnuPG mailing lists)!</p
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><p
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>There is open bug report about PGP/MIME not working on Ubuntu MLs at LaunchPad, <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/996581"
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>996581</a
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></p
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><p
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>NOTE: If you want to sign emails and use HTML at the same time, you <em
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>must</em
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> use PGP/MIME or otherwise your signature cannot be verified!</p
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><p
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>To send PGP/MIME by default, open Edit --> Account Settings --> OpenPGP security and check "Use always PGP/MIME".</p
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>Remember to check to do this for your all identities in case you have more than one of them. Edit --> Account Settings --> "Manage Identities..." button and after selecting identity, you can find OpenPGP security tab.</p
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><h1 id="openpgp-headers."
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>OpenPGP headers.</h1
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><p
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>To enable sending OpenPGP headers, return to OpenPGP settings (mentioned above) and click "advanced".</p
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><p
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>Select the both checkboxes and write URL where your key is located. If you don't have homepage, you can link to webui of your preferred keyserver.</p
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><p
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>These headers appear in email source like this:</p
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><p
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><code
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>OpenPGP: id=82A46728; url=http://mkaysi.github.com/PGP/key.txt</code
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></p
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><p
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><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">Enigmail guide</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.<br />Based on a work at <a xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" href="http://mkaysi.github.com/articles/guides/GPG/Enigmail.html" rel="dct:source">mkaysi.github.com</a>.</p
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