zyxhere💠wrote: > Hi I'm new to the mailing list workflow (or emails in general), right > now I'm using evolution and have somehow been able to configure it (I > can even encrypt emails with it!!😱😱).Two things I wanted to know are > what should the wrap line limit be (in evolution the default is 71 but I > don't know why is it even correct?) and how can I send someone else > encrypted emails with evoution, I did test it and was able to send > encrypted/signed emails to myself so now I want to know how can I do the > same to others. > > Do I have to manually get everyones public key and make them trusted? Or > can evolution somehow get those from a keyserver? I did verify my keys > with this email address on https://keys.openpgp.org/ (Note that I'm also > a little new to GPG too). > > Will appreciate any help. > Thanks.
I had trouble with encrypted email a while back and got some help off list. From my understanding, the work flow for encrypted is something like this. You first send a email that doesn't contain anything you don't want public. You attach your public keys to the plain message. They reply, again with nothing you wouldn't want to be public, and they attach their keys. At this point, you have each others public keys and can encrypt. You can then send with a encrypted email. You can attach your keys again if you want. It is best when you start sending encrypted that you start a fresh email, don't reply to a unencrypted email with a encrypted one. If a hacker figures out some of the message based on what was not encrypted, it can then get the rest, or it makes it easier. That's my understanding anyway. I went through this with a friend a while back. He had new keys or something. We just started over again. The above process works. Oh, I was also told that it is not recommended to use keyservers. It seems that those to have some sort of security issues. It is recommended that you just send the keys to each other. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)Â
