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  <info>
    <desc>Setting up GPG for your mail account to sign and/or encrypt and decrypt messages.</desc>

    <link type="guide" xref="mail-encryption#gpg"/>

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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
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      <name its:translate="no">Novell, Inc</name> <!-- Content partially from http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/2.32/encryption.html.en#encrypt-evo-integ -->
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  <title>Setting up GPG for your mail account</title>
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<note style="tip"><p>You need a GPG key to do this. If you do not have one yet, please refer to <link xref="mail-encryption-gpg-create-key">Creating a GPG key</link>.</p></note>

<steps>
<item><p>Select <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Mail Accounts</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
<item><p>Select the account you want to use securely, then click <gui style="button">Edit</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Click the <gui>Security</gui> tab.</p></item>
<item><p>Specify your key ID in the <gui>PGP/GPG Key ID</gui> field.</p>
<note style="tip"><p>Below the field you can choose whether to always sign outgoing messages when using this account, and other options.</p></note>
</item>
<item><p>Click <gui style="button">OK</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Click <gui style="button">Close</gui>.</p></item>
</steps>
<p>Evolution requires that you know your key ID. If you do not remember it, you can find it by typing <cmd>gpg --list-keys</cmd> in the <app>Terminal</app> application. Your key ID is an eight-character string with random numbers and letters.</p>

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