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Prerequisites

Configuration

  • Start Evolution
  • Edit → Settings → Certificates
    • Card “Your certificates” → Import
      • Point to the file you created under “Issue” in the User certificates section
      • Enter the corresponding password
      • Click on the “OK” button
    • Card “Certification authorities” → Check the required certification authorities
      • T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH
        • T-TeleSec GlobalRoot Class 2
      • Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes (Association for the Promotion of a German Research Network)
        • DFN-Verein Certification Authority 2
        • DFN-Verein Global Issuing CA
  • Edit → Settings → E-mail accounts
    • <Your e-mail account> → Edit
    • Security tab, section Secure MIME (S/MIME)
      • Signature Certificate: Select your personal digital user certificate here.
      • Signature algorithm: SHA256
      • Always sign outgoing messages from this account: activated
      • Encryption certificate: Select your personal digital user certificate here.
      • Always encrypt outgoing messages from this account: enabled.

Now you have carried out all the necessary steps to sign every e-mail. Provided you have the public key of your communication partner, you can also encrypt every e-mail.

Use

Sign

  • Click on “New” → “New e-mail message” in Evolution and compose it.
  • Before sending, check at the top of DeepL access that the message is digitally signed.
    • The button “Sign this message with your S/MIME signing certificate” at the top of the DeepL access is activated by default.
    • The button “Encrypt this message with your S/MIME encryption certificate” at the top of the DeepL access is enabled by default, it must be disabled.
  • As soon as you click on “Send”, the e-mail is digitally signed and subsequently sent.
  • The communication partner sees the loop symbol as a sign of a digitally signed e-mail.

Encrypt

To encrypt an e-mail, you must first have the communication partner's public key:

  • Have your communication partner send you a digitally signed e-mail, for example. Evolution automatically adds the public key to its certificate store.
  • Click on “New” → “New e-mail message” in Evolution and compose it.
  • Before sending, check at the top of DeepL access that the message is digitally encrypted.
    • The button “Sign this message with your S/MIME signing certificate” at the top of the DeepL access is activated by default.
    • The button “Encrypt this message with your S/MIME encryption certificate” at the top of the DeepL access is activated by default.
  • As soon as you click on “Send”, the e-mail is encrypted and then sent.
  • The communication partner sees the padlock symbol as a sign of an encrypted e-mail.
en/tp/email/security/linux-evolution.txt · Last modified: 2024/01/19 10:28 by gu1111