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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
+ type="topic" id="mail-encryption-gpg-set-up">
+
+ <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"/>
+
+ <revision pkgversion="2.32.1" version="0.2" date="2011-07-27" status="final"/>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Andre Klapper</name>
+ <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Novell, Inc</name> <!-- Content partially from http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/2.32/encryption.html.en#encrypt-evo-integ -->
+ </credit>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
+
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Setting up GPG for your mail account</title>
+<!-- TODO:POST-3-2: Update and rewrite using Seahorse. Needs a complete rewrite once https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508744 is fixed. -->
+
+<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></item>
+<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><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 <code>gpg --list-keys</code> in a terminal window. Your key ID is an eight-character string with random numbers and letters.</p>
+
+</page>