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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    Re: Help needed
From:       Johannes Burk <me () jojoob ! de>
Date:       2016-04-24 17:14:10
Message-ID: D7C15FBD-7507-4C8B-8059-4D8DC699848F () jojoob ! de
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> 1) When I open a new email message window, I see a green box in the upper \
> right hand corner which is labeled "OpenPGP". Is that right? 2) Should I \
> be able to toggle GPG on and off;

Yes, the green box in the upper right of the new message window indicates \
that the GPGTools are integrated into Mail app. In addition there are to \
buttons on the right in the subject row. The left one (open/closed lock) \
indicates if the mail is going to be encrypted and the other one if the \
message will be signed.

> 3) I composed a short Test message to send to myself. In order to Encrypt \
> it, I selected the text, went to Services and selected Encrypt. That gave \
> me the encrypted code in a new window. It seemed to me that I then had to \
> select that text, copy and then paste it into the new message.  There has \
> to be a simpler way to perform these functions? What are they?

It should not be necessary to encrypt the message manually as you \
described. If you compose a message to a recipient for which you have a \
trusted key in your keychain the message should automatically become \
encrypted, indicated by the button described above.

> 5) Even if I do not Encrypt the outgoing message, I get a window asking \
> for my Passphrase. In the older PGP version, I had the option to cache \
> the Passphrase so I did not have to enter it every time. How do I \
> simplify this function?

By default GPGTools signs all outgoing messages. Therefor GPG asks for your \
password because it needs your private key to sign the message.


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