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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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