12.7. Guard Settings

How to use the Guard settings:

Click the Settings icon on the right side of the menu bar. Click on Settings.
In the side bar, click on Security. Click on Guard.

The Guard security settings page will be displayed.

The following settings are available:

default settings

Default to send encrypted when composing e-mail. Defines whether a new E-Mail is encrypted by default.
default adding signature to outgoing email messages. Defines whether a new E-Mail is encrypted by default.
Default to using PGP inline for new e-mail messages. Defines whether the PGP encryption is done inline by default. Only use those settings if the E-Mail client of a recipient does not support PGP. With PGP inline, the recipient can decrypt the message regardless. If you use this setting, you can not send E-Mail messages in HTML format.
remember password default. Defines the time range default for Guard to remember the password. You can change this default when being asked for your Guard password.

Password management

Contains functions for changing or resetting the password.
See Password management

Advanced

Advanced settings. If Show advanced settings is enabled, the following settings and functions will be available.
- E-Mail cache
  
  Defines whether a decrypted E-Mail is kept in the browser cache in a readable format when displaying another E-Mail or changing to another groupware app.
  
  To remove the decrypted E-Mail from the browser cache, enable Do not keep e-mail messages decrypted..
- Keys section
  
  Managing your own keys, public keys or Autocrypt keys.
  
  See Keys
- Autocrypt section
  
  Configures the usage of Autocrypt for incoming E-Mail Messages. Allows you to transfer Autocrypt keys to other clients.
  
  See Encrypting E-Mail Conversations with Autocrypt
- When sending encrypted E-Mail Messages, there are additional options available.
  
  See Sending encrypted E-Mail messages

Keys

Usually, the key management functions are not required for sending or receiving encrypted messages. These functions can be useful though under the following circumstances:

You want to use your Guard PGP keys in other email clients, e.g. in local email clients.
You have PGP keys from other PGP applications. You want to use those keys in Guard.
You have an external partner's public key. In order to send encrypted messages to this external partner or verify received signed messages without having to access a key server, you want to import the partner's public key into Guard.
You want to provide your public key to an external partner in order to allow the external partner to send encrypted messages to you without the need to access a key server.

The following options are available:

Download my public key button. Saves your public key locally.
Your keys button. Opens the Your Keys window for managing your own keys.
Public keys of recipients button. Opens the Your Keys window for managing public keys.

Parent topic: Encrypting Data with Guard