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 sidebar, 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 email. Defines whether a new email is encrypted by default.
Default adding signature to outgoing mails. Defines whether a new email is encrypted per default.
Default to using PGP inline for new mails. Defines whether the PGP encryption is done inline as default. Only use those settings if the email client of a recipient does not support PGP. With PGP inline, the recipient can decrypt the message nevertheless. If you use this setting, you can not send emails 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.
- Email cache
  
  Defines whether a decrypted email is kept in the browser cache in a readable format when displaying another email or changing to another groupware app.
  
  To remove the decrypted email from the browser cache, enable Do not keep emails decrypted..
- Keys section
  
  Managing own keys, public keys or Autocrypt keys.
  
  See Keys
- Autocrypt section
  
  Configures the usage of Autocrypt for incoming emails. Allows you to transfer Autocrypt keys to other clients.
  
  See Encrypting Email Conversations with Autocrypt
- When sending encrypted emails, there are additional options.
  
  See Sending encrypted emails

Keys

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

You want to use your Guard PGP keys in other E-Mail clients, e.g. in local E-Mail 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 exist:

Download my public key button. Locally saves your public key.
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